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#1 2010-07-16 02:38:40

claudius753
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Registered: 2008-11-28
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Rosewill Wireless (Ralink 2860+2820)

I just built a new i7 desktop (goodbye MacBook).  I kept some space on my HDD for Linux installs.  I want to do Arch, like I tried a year or more ago.  Want to see the SPEED of the i7 smile

But first a question.  My wireless card is a Rosewill (newegg brand I think).  This model: http://www.rosewill.com/products/s_1200 … Detail.htm

According to the specs, it uses a Ralink 2860+2820 chipset.  Is this chipset supported natively?  I plan on doing an FTP install, and I have only wireless access for this desktop.  I know it came right up in Ubuntu, without having to enable any proprietary drivers, so I'm hoping it will just work with Arch too.

Anyone know?

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#2 2010-07-16 07:26:15

tomk
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Registered: 2004-07-21
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Re: Rosewill Wireless (Ralink 2860+2820)

It works, but there is a possible driver conflict issue. Search here for 'rt2860', there are various threads on this topic.

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#3 2010-07-16 15:08:51

Shakz
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Registered: 2010-06-07
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Re: Rosewill Wireless (Ralink 2860+2820)

I believe that driver is already in the most recent kernel.

Seems it should be pretty simple to get going.
ifconfig wlan0 essid <your essid>
dhcpcd wlan0
where wlan0 is your wireless card. For my desktop its wlan0 for my laptop (took special drivers so I had to use a ralink usb card (Belkin) to do the initial setup as I only have wireless.  After downloading and installing broadcoms pain in the butt drivers it came out as eth0 and my lan (wired) came to eth1. iwconfig should list your wireless cards.

Dont forget to install wireless-tools. They come up by default on the live cd but wont be there unless you load them on your actual install.

Wireless wiki is quite good.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … bsolete.29

Last edited by Shakz (2010-07-16 15:10:02)

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#4 2010-07-17 08:36:53

Cdh
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Registered: 2009-02-03
Posts: 1,098

Re: Rosewill Wireless (Ralink 2860+2820)

rt2860sta is in staging in the kernel and will be removed when rt2x00 works with this card (does not reliable today).
There can be problems that both drivers are loaded at the same time.

lsmod | grep rt

If this gives you not only rt2860sta but also rt2x00lib or 2800pci or stuff like that you have to blacklist it.
I don't know anything about the 2820...


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