USB WiFi Ralink device on F14

[BillGradwohl]

I just purchased 3 identical USB wireless devices that claimed to work under Linux, but I can't seem to get any of them to work on several different F14 boxes. One might be defective, but I doubt 3 can be bad.

lsusb says:
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter

I searched for ralink 2870 and found several references to things that worked on pre f14 operating systems. I couldn't get any of the suggestions to work.

I tried compiling the driver from ralinks web site and it get compile errors late during the make operation.

yum install kmod-rt2870 akmod-rt2870 didn't seem to do the trick.

What's really confusing me is when I run System/Administration/Network and attempt to add a device, I see a ralink reference under wireless but configuring it only allows for eth0-ethX options. I was expecting wlanX or raX options.

Is there a known fool proof way of getting this gadget operational?

[PabloTwo]

Maybe you grabbed the wrong driver package? Try the fourth one down in this list.

Also, there's a recent thread discussing this same device. Sort of tedious, but you may glean some hints from it.