Thanks for this information, after a long search I finally got it working with the description in
Ben Selinger
March 4th, 2009 at 5:42 am
I had no problems with version 1.8.0.0

FYI, I used the latest 2010_01_29_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.3.0.0.tar.bz2 instead, which I downloaded from http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2

Kind regards

First – many thanks to Tim, and others, for all their efforts on this topic and making their advice and experiences available.

I am running an Asus 1000 and have successfully connected using WEP in the past without problem. Today I started trying to connect with WPA…and the trials and tribulations of that are how I ended up on this site.

Before I took the leap of seeing if post 15 could help me, I read through most of the other posts, and number 82 from Gorilla caught my eye. And I’m glad it did.

I checked, and my WPA was set to TKIP by default. I changed this to WPA2-PSK (AES) in my internet wireless settings, edited my network settings accordingly on my Asus machine (using the graphical Network Connections window), et voila!

So, making the rather large and hopeful assumption that this is a real fix, as opposed to a freak connection success, Gorilla’s suggestion may be a simple fix for some.

I just wanted to say thank you. Post 15 is the real answer. I talked to ASUS tech support and searched the internet for 7 hours before finally finding this solution. Thanks, again.

wget http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/2008_0918_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.8.0.0.tar.bz2

tar -xvjpf 2008_0918_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.8.0.0.tar.bz2
cd 2008_0918_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.8.0.0
vi os/linux/config.mk
#set the following
HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y
HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y

make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe -r rt2860sta
sudo modprobe rt2860sta

everything should work now.

Followed some clues from ifconfig & iwconfig for the 901 compared to my other Linux laptop and googled more specifcially.

This link http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=417599 gave me the info necessary to write a script to make the d*** thing work. Just altering the .dat file as suggested first did not work.

Will explore this in more detail

Many thanks for the great work on the module Tim

The device out of the box can see the access points, iwconfig & ifconfig look OK apart from a low datarate, but the signal level was 0% until I installed Tim’s new module. Now the signal level is 10% – my AP – a WG602 in WEP mode shows the 901 as disconnected all the time except when the 901 is off when the entry disappears. So as far as I can tell everything is OK but I can’t even ping the AP. I’ve had plenty of problems/experience with Linux wireless connections in the past which have all been resolvable but this is a puzzle.