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Ralink RT2070, RT2770, RT2870, RT3070, RT3071, RT3072, RT3370, RT3572, RT5370 devices (rt2800usb)

This page describes how to enable support for WiFi devices based on Ralink 802.11n USB chipsets on Debian systems.

{i} Squeeze users, see rt2870sta for device support.

rt2800usb is a driver produced by the rt2x00 project, supporting Ralink 802.11n USB chipsets. Supported devices are listed at the end of this page.

It is included in the mainline Linux kernel since version 2.6.31 and replaces the rt2870sta staging driver in Wheezy and later releases.1 Firmware is required and available in the firmware-ralink package.

Experimental support for the RT3370 and RT3572 chips was enabled in linux-2.6 2.6.38-5; RT3370 support is no longer experimental since Linux 3.0.

{i} Ralink 802.11n PCI devices are supported by the rt2800pci driver.

Installation

Wheezy

  1. Add a "non-free" component to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example:

    # Debian Wheezy (testing)
    deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
  2. Update the list of available packages and install the firmware-ralink package:

    aptitude update && aptitude install firmware-ralink
  3. If not already performed, connect the device to your system.
  4. The rt2800usb kernel module is automatically loaded for supported devices. Configure your wireless interface as appropriate.

Supported Devices

The page HowToIdentifyADevice/USB explains how to identify a USB device.

The following list is based on the alias fields of modinfo rt2800usb in Debian 3.2.0 (3.2.14-1) kernel images.

See Also


CategoryHardware | CategoryWireless