Verify your device has an available interface: iwconfigĬonfigure your wireless interface as appropriate. The rt2870sta kernel module is automatically loaded for supported devices.

If not already performed, connect the device to your system.

Update the list of available packages and install the firmware-ralink and wireless-tools packages: aptitude updateĪptitude install firmware-ralink wireless-tools Ralink 802.11g USB devices are supported by the rt73usb and rt2500usb drivers.Īdd a 'non-free' component to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example: # Debian Squeeze/6.0 Ralink 802.11n PCI devices are supported by the rt2860sta driver. The staging driver depends on the x86 or x86-64 architecture (Debian i386 and AMD64 ports respectively). 1 It is available in the firmware-ralink package since version 0.17. The rt3070sta staging driver was merged with rt2870sta at Linux 2.6.32.įirmware has been removed from the driver in Debian kernel images as of 2.6.30. It is present in Debian kernel images since 2.6.29 (i386, amd64). This experimental vendor driver is included as a staging driver in the mainline Linux kernel since 2.6.29. Supported devices are listed at the end of this page. Rt2870sta is a module for the Ralink RT2800U and RT3000U USB 802.11 draft-n wireless LAN chipsets.

Ralink rt2870 driver