On 04/02/13 13:41, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 04/02/13 13:21, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> I already in effect tried that; when I ran the command 'unzip' on it,
>> the machine renamed it "sp58586.exe.ZIP" and looked at it and said
>> "gar nicht," or words to that effect.
>
> I grabbed the same file and indeed it's a windows executable and not
> a zip or self-extracting zip as first hoped. If you run it under WINE
> it craps out part way through, however not before unpacking it in
> ~/.wine/drive_c/SWSetup/SP38586
>
> I had a look in there and there's setup.exe and some cab files for
the installation (which halted as mentioned above). I then unpacked it
with "unshield" and lo-and-behold there's a bunch of driver directories...
>
> unshield x data1.cab
>
> The RT2860_Driver_XP2k directory is probably what you need for
ndiswrapper?
>
> alan@deep-thought:~/.wine/drive_c/SWSetup/SP58586/RT2860_Driver_XP2k$
ls -l
> total 3504
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 alan alan 14119 Feb 4 13:38 RaCoInst.dat
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 alan alan 238944 Feb 4 13:38 RaCoInst.dll
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 alan alan 31420 Feb 4 13:38 rt2860.cat
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 alan alan 564788 Feb 4 13:38 RT2860.inf
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 alan alan 2687552 Feb 4 13:38 RT2860.sys
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
You hunted through Hewett-Packard's site for that? Amazing. Well,
indeed, the Ubuntu Forums people found exactly the same driver in its
raw state, elsewhere, and I have it but evidently can't install it.
Perhaps I need some of the other files, but what I have is just the
basic thing, which is generally referred to as rt3562sta. I installed it
just as Paula described, but no dice. There's a very interesting set of
instruction here which I just found:
http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2010/08/wifi-ralink-3062/
It says:
1. Go to Ralink’s Linux page and download the appropriate driver and
firmware based on the model number.
2. Unzip the firmware
3. As root, copy rt280.bin to /lib/firmware/rt2860.bin
Now, this firmware I had no idea of. You must understand that Ralink's
own site no longer exists, it has been merged with some other company,
and as far as I can tell, there are no relevant drivers, with firmware
or without, available there any more. That shouldn't be the case, and
maybe a more expert hand could navigate into the site that has replaced
Ralink and find them.
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