Ralink chipsets (RT2760/RT2790/RT2860/RT2890, RT3090/RT3091/RT3092)

[oupsemma]

If you're having problems with the following Ralink chipsets: RT2760/RT2790/RT2860/RT2890, RT3090/RT3091/RT3092, that were previously using the rt2860sta driver, and now use the rt2X00 ones, and have already installed/compiled driver from RaLink, you should first check which rt* modules are loaded

 $ lsmod | grep rt

and blacklist the ones that you find preloaded, editing as root your /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and adding
EDIT: this is for rt2860sta:

blacklist rt2800pci
blacklist rt2800lib
blacklist rt2x00pci
blacklist rt2x00lib

Otherwise, on a fresh installation, you shouldn't have to install the drivers from RaLink nor use akmod/kmods from RPM Fusion, as the 2X00 driver from SerialMonkey is now fully functional.

http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/RT2X00.html

[musikmann]

Thank you Oupsemma!! I was having to reboot every time I logged into Gnome with my wireless card turned on because my kernel crashed...very annoying!

One quick comment: Using the new driver is part of the kernel, but may not work automagically. You can check it exists by typing (as any user)

modprobe -l | grep rt2x

If it does simply enable it by typing (as root)

modprobe rt2nnnyyy

Where nnn is the model of your wireless card and yyy is the bus, which can be found by typing (as any user)

lspci |grep RaLink 
lsusb |grep RaLink

For example, my output to lspci |grep RaLink is:

04:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2860

lsusb |grep RaLink didn't output anything. My card is on the PCI bus.

Therefore I had to type (as root)

modprobe rt2800pci

NOTE:
If you installed the kmod-rt2860 or kmod-rt2870 package, please erase it before you start trying to enable the new driver. You can also simply disable it by adding one of the following lines to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and rebooting.

blacklist rt2860sta

-or-

blacklist rt2870sta

[corp769]

Would i need to add anything to my udev rules for my device to be configured upon being plugged in?

edit: I have the alfa awus036nh. I started a thread before I found this, as I searched for the wrong terms.....

[musikmann]

corp769,
I dont know for sure. You will need to test. I would say that you shouldn't have to. It appears that my 70-persistent-net.rules file changed so that its working with the new module. You might try booting with it attached once if you have problems hot plugging. The only things I ended up having to do is erase the old rt2860sta package and type modprobe as root one time to make it kick off, because adding the module never did start automatically. After that, it loaded up at boot. You may need to run modprobe one time after you plug it in for the first time.

[corp769]

Ok, yea that's the only thing that I didn't try yet, was to leave it plugged in and reboot. I will do that right now and let you know what the hell happens. Thanks though.

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Ok nothing. Driver doesnt get loaded automatically, so i modprobed it, and still nothing. I have nothing blacklisted. Before when i had everything blacklisted from the first post, it did say that it was using the rt2800usb driver. Any thoughts?

edit - the persistent rules did not change at all too....

---------- Post added at 09:35 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:26 AM ----------

One other thing I would like to add.... when I first got it, I did a yum install rt3070* and it installed third party drivers from rpmfusion, along with the kmod files, and networkmanager picked it up and it worked, but monitor mode and injection did not. Maybe I need to do something along that line, possibly install the kmod files?

[corp769]

Bump for good luck?

[oupsemma]

corp769:
Your USB device seems to use the rt2870sta driver: http://wiki.debian.org/rt2870sta

rt2870sta is a module for the Ralink RT2800U[D] and RT3000U[D] USB 802.11 draft-n wireless LAN chipsets.
Ralink 802.11n PCI devices are supported by the rt2860sta driver.
Ralink 802.11g USB devices are supported by the rt73usb and rt2500usb drivers.

Here, you'll find how to tweak it to your needs:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...#Configuration

[corp769]

oupsemma - Can you confirm injection with that driver? And how about network manager compatibility? I know how to get my chipset working, I just need to get injection working with it.....

[oupsemma]

Don't know about injection, but it seems to, from what I've found:
http://securitystartshere.org/page-t...-platforms.htm
http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=rt2870&s[]=rt2870
http://forum.aircrack-ng.org/index.p...25504#msg25504

As for the networking GUI, sometimes ago Wicd used to work better than NetworkManager with RaLink chipsets, but now my experience with rt2860 and various distros is that, for basic Internet use, they are equal.

[corp769]

Alright well i have the injection drivers installed pretty much, i just need to find out how to either set up the udev rules or whatever so when i plug in my device, it will load the drivers for it and recognize it. Anyone have information on how to do this? Thanks.

[corp769]

Err, bump?

[corp769]

Is there anyone who could help even a bit? I really don't know where to start with this....

[corp769]

Wow, bump one more time? lol...

[oupsemma]

Googling for 'injection awus036nh.' brings a few answers, amongst which these ones:
http://forum.aircrack-ng.org/index.php?topic=7177.0 http://forum.aircrack-ng.org/index.php?topic=8277.0
http://codeme.gotdns.com/2010/12/14/...h-aircrack-ng/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=528276
You'll certainly need a patch: http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?...41493d4512b87c
http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php

[corp769]

And i'm kind of back to square one.... the link http://codeme.gotdns.com/2010/12/14/...h-aircrack-ng/ would be a good reference, but when I go to the actual site that it talks about, like once again, there is no information for my chipset. Now unless you can tell me straight up that I can follow the steps and information needed for a completely different chipset, does anyone have anything else? I am seriously about to give up and smash this thing in anger haha....