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rt2570
It is highly recommended to use a enhanced and patched driver from http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~p_larbig/wlan/ instead of serialmonkey drivers.
ifconfig rausb0 down rmmod rt2570 wget http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~p_larbig/wlan/rt2570-k2wrlz-1.6.1.tar.bz2 tar -xvjf rt2570-k2wrlz-1.6.1.tar.bz2 cd rt2570-k2wrlz-1.6.1/Module make && make install modprobe rt2570
Make sure to load the driver with modprobe (not insmod).
Mirrors for the driver:
http://echoaudio.ca/aspj/ http://aspj.wiredwireless.com/
Troubleshooting Tips
Note that this driver currently does not work on big endian systems, such as the PowerPC. Attempting to run “ifconfig rausb0 up” will cause ifconfig to use 100% CPU power, bringing your system to a crawl and never actually working.
There are reports of the aircrack-ng tools freezing and/or stop working.
Here are a few things to try:
- Try lowering injection rate
- Disable USB Legacy support in BIOS
- Use the newest kernel you can get
- Try to use a non SMP version of your kernel
- Use the newest 1.6.1 driver
- If the hardware totally loses its function: Use the oven method to get it back to life: http://tinyshell.be/aircrackng/forum/index.php?topic=233.msg6371#msg6371
When to use this driver?
See this message.
If you have a ralink chip in an USB device that chip is a RT2570 or RT73 and you need “rt2570” driver or “rt73” driver, “rt2500” driver is for PCI/PCMCIA devices.
Using legacy drivers (or ASPj mods) interface name is ra0 for PCI/PCMCIA and rausb0 for USB devices, if you have wlan0 and wmaster0 interfaces you are using new rt2x00-mac80211 driver (rt2x00 has various modules, for USB devices are “rt2500usb” and “rt73usb”, unload them and load “rt2570” or “rt73”).