Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

roky · Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 4

hoping to use my puppy on this new s-10, rather than winxp it came with -- when i use network wizard, the 2870 driver is not recognized, though it is on the list of modules -- when i load the module, no interface is detected -- for some reason, linux mint has no problem with this, puppy does -- problem is i much prefer puppy

thanks, roky

zapp22 · Joined: 02 Jul 2010 Posts: 15

there is a driver on the Ralink site but I have no clue how to install it properly. also a WebUI for it.
http://www.ralink.com.tw/support.php?s=2
its the fourth and fifth link i believe. fairly recent.

microsoft win7 uses a microsoft supplied driver written/sourced-from by WinDDK whatever that is. i imagine it is merely packaged by MS, developed by ??. There is also a wiki page for a linux project to develop Ralink device drivers. the effort is now disbanded as best I can determine. lots of web discussion on it however...

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 4950 Location: Australia

Later revisions of the Ralink RT2870 chipset are more similar to the recent RT3070 chipset, and are supported in Linux by the rt3070sta driver.
Get this driver from -
"Extras for Puppy 4.3 with 2.6.30.5 kernel"
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=346449#346449