The WiFi in my laptop gave up the ghost. Doesn't matter what card I put in the mini PCIe slot, the system doesn't think anything is there.
So, I bought one of those "new" $7 Wifi dongles for the USB port. Surprisingly small! 802.11n capable as well!
The problem? It appears in the lsusb list:
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp.
But, nothing appears as a Wifi Device.
One Wifi email list suggested that it would be supported by the rt2x00 driver, but modprobing that driver does not recognize the device.
The RaLink site has 2 drivers that *should* support it: rt2870usb and rt2870sta.
I found that RPMFusion packages version 2.4.0 of the rt2870 driver, but there is no entry for the 148f:5370, so no network device gets created. Not even when I add an entry for it to: /lib/modules/2.6.25.14-96.fc14.x86_64/modules.usbmap
The final step I tried was to download the 2.5.0.2 driver from RaLink, and build it locally. It builds, but it doesn't build an installable kernel module:
# insmod rt5370sta.ko insmod: error inserting 'rt5370sta.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
Anyone have one of these running in their system yet?
I'm looking forward to seeing an ra0 device that I can use as my wifi connection!