rt2870sta problem

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#1

Hi everybody,
I have bought a usb wireless adapter belkin F5D8055T2 and I am trying to install it with Suse 10.3

lsusb
Bus 002 Device 010: ID 050d:825b Belkin Components

I downloaded and installed the modules rt2870sta

ifconfig ra0 up
ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:75:3F:75:C5
inet6 addr: fe80::222:75ff:fe3f:75c5/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4030 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:337212 (329.3 Kb)

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iwconfig ra0
ra0 Ralink STA ESSID:“bergamori” Nickname:“RT2870STA”
Mode:Auto Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=10/100 Signal level:0 dBm Noise level:-87 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

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iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.

ra0 No scan results

(but the USB stick blinks!)

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ifup ra0
ra0
ra0 warning: using NO encryption
Starting DHCP Client Daemon on ra0… . . . . . no IP address yet… backgrounding.

I am using an open network, so it should be no authentication problem.

I have problems using YAST since it detects it as wlan0 and I am not allowed to change name or module.

Any suggestions? I have seen that many people had troubles with this drivers, and all found a different solution.

I have also tryied ndiswrapper but that seems to work even worse.

#2

Try to install new driver for rt2870. Here you can find it:
Ralink corp.

#3

This device is v2 of the belkin adapter and uses the rt3070 (not rt2870 as v1 used) chipset. Download the driver source from ralink then add device id 050d:825b to driversrc/os/linux/usb_main_dev.c. Compile and install. Interestingly enough the driver still looks for the config file in /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA/RT2870STA.dat. This is probably a bug as it creates the correct (ie RT3070) file/folder names but you’ll need to rename it to the incorrect RT2870 if you have problems (it gave me a siocsifflags permissions error or summat until I renamed the config file).

This worked for me on arch linux. Hope it helps.