RaLink 5370 USB Wifi Dongle

[mike cloaked]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:20 AM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Kevin J. Cummings
> <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
>> 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!
>
> I have on order one of the small wifi adapters which I believe should
> work with the  rt2870usb also - and I will be very interested to hear
> of any progress - the reason I ordered the new one was that I have a
> device that was working fine with the realtek rtl8712SU driver but I
> cannot compile the driver with the 3.1 kernel as there are compile
> errors - and I want to test a laptop that needs this running f16 pre
> beta - there is supposed to be a suitable driver in kmod staging for
> the latter but kmod staging for f16 is not yet available.
>
> So I thought I would try the rt2870 device and I will fiddle with it
> properly once it arrives in the coming days.  I see you are using f14
> - have you tried installing kmod-staging from rpmfusion to see if
> there is a driver there?
>
> I will post more once I get my device and tinker with it.
>

By the way my device is
http://www.edimax.com/en/support_detail.php?pd_id=366&pl1_id=1&pl2_id=44
with the drivers listed at
http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/Edimax_EW-7722UTn

I am hoping that there may be a driver already in the newer kernels
that may work - but if necessary I will try to compile the driver from
source....  it is an interesting game trying to get these usb wifi
adapters going!
-- 
mike c