I bought a USB wifi dongle with the rt3370 chipset to use in place of the
non-free rtl8192se that came with my netbook. I downloaded the driver source
from Ralink but the installation instructions are really confusing.
I first tried just running "make"… everything seemed fine until it tried
this:
cp -f
/home/skbochs/Sources/2011_0107_RT3070_RT3370_Linux_STA_v2.5.0.1_DPO/os/linux/rt3070sta.ko
/tftpboot
cp: cannot create regular file `/tftpboot': Permission denied
make: *** [LINUX] Error 1
It couldn't complete because I ran make without superuser privileges, but I
don't get what it's trying to do.
I found this for the rt2870, but I'm not sure if it applies here.