In Karmic, we have the rt2800usb driver as part of the open source rt2x00 project (now entering mainline) but the new set of rt2* drivers still fail to automatically probe this card. NB: I've tested this thoroughly on both Jaunty and Karmic. unless of course you break it, which is understandable.
All I ask in return is that you get it working, and return it to me when you are done with it (shipping at my expense). Since these wireless USB adapters are relatively inexpensive, I am willing to donate one to a single competent individual who believes he/she can get this working well. I think we will need a volunteer kernel hacker to take a look at it and see if the fix is reasonably easy. But if the action is in Linksys' court, I'm not sure they would help us at all.
#RALINK RT3572 CHIPSET DRIVERS PATCH#
If Ralink is nice enough to patch their drivers for the quirks of other vendors' products (such as Linksys) then it's just a matter of waiting. I'm not sure how fervently upstream tries to support manufacturers who buy the rt2870 chipset and put it in their own product. But since the module oopsed, I was unable to send any commands to the wireless interface via NetworkManager, iwconfig, etc. But at least rt2870 seems to be partially aware of the chip - right after the oops I ran `ifconfig' and the interface was up and I could get its MAC address (and it was correct). So apparently the fix to get it supported isn't as simple as adding that one line. I tried manually adding the USB ID to the rt2870sta source code and rebuilding the driver, but doing so gave me a kernel oops within that module. I am not sure whether "v2" is an entirely different chipset, or whether it's just rt2870 with a quirk. The original of this model, WUSB600N, is supposedly an rt2870-compatible chip. So no modules claim they support this card. The output of `lsmod' before and after hot insertion is identical. When the USB adapter is hotplugged (or even coldplugged) the USB bus recognizes that "something" has been plugged in, but no additional modules are loaded at all. I have a "Linksys By Cisco" brand WUSB600N v2.
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