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iamsmrt

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Registered: 2009-08-12

Posts: 138

Can't get Ralink rt2860 wireless card working

So I've read through the wikis and forum posts, trying multiple solutions but I still can't get my wireless working. Typing "ifconfig wlan0 up" yields:

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied

Which I understand to mean that I don't have the proper firmware installed. Now, I was under the impression that the firmware is now built into the kernel and that I don't need to do much out of the box other than put something like this in my /etc/rc.conf:

MODULES=(!rt2800pci !rt61pci !rt2x00pci !rt2800usb !rt2800lib !rt2x00usb !rt2x00lib rt2860sta)

But that still doesn't work. Is there a problem with Kernel 2.6.34 and the wireless drivers/firmware for this card?

Cheers,
SMRT

tetrao

Member

Registered: 2010-04-07

Posts: 34

Re: Can't get Ralink rt2860 wireless card working

You can also try rt2x00pci modul, in my case it works even better than rt2860sta.  (asus eeepc 1000he and ralink wi-fi)

Just blacklist rt2860sta and reboot comp. or use modprobe. If it works you can optional get lates rt2x00 from here: http://linuxwireless.org/

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Can't get Ralink rt2860 wireless card working

"Permission denied" means that you didn't run ifconfig as root.

iamsmrt

Member

Registered: 2009-08-12

Posts: 138

Re: Can't get Ralink rt2860 wireless card working

"Permission denied" means that you didn't run ifconfig as root.

Wow, I don't think I've ever felt so dumb before. Thank you, it worked great.