Opened 9 years ago
Last modified 22 months ago
#12055 assigned enhancement
Ralink RT3070 (USB) support
| Reported by: | haiqu | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
| Component: | Drivers/Network/ralinkwifi | Version: | R1/Development |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
There seems to be no driver for the Ralink RT3070 chip, which is used in many cheap USB wifi extenders such as the Egasky/Mars/Venu A2414N.
Someone with the user name jackburton79 posted driver code to github on Nov 7, 2014 so perhaps he can be contacted about including it in the source tree.
Change History (11)
comment:1 by , 9 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:2 by , 9 years ago
I've built and installed this driver, will test it when I get back aboard my yacht which has a device that uses this chip. Although maybe missing USB networking glue will limit usefulness of the test.
comment:3 by , 9 years ago
This driver is a native one, so it can use USB (what's missing is support for USB in FreeBSD drivers, only). However, there could be another problem, that native drivers can't easily interface with wpa_supplicant to connect to WPA encrypted networks. I don't know if this particular driver has solved this somehow.
comment:4 by , 4 years ago
| Summary: | Ralink RT3070 support → Ralink RT3070 (USB) support |
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comment:5 by , 23 months ago
Any updates on this? I read an announcement on Osnews which said Haiku finally got a functional USB Wifi networking with the Realtek driver, and that Ralink and others should follow. I have a TP-Link USB dongle that has the RT3070 chip inside and I'll be glad to help with tests or anything else needed.
comment:6 by , 23 months ago
It's in my TODO list, I may look into it after the OpenBSD port work is merged.
comment:7 by , 23 months ago
Thanks, looking forward to have some kind of wireless support on my laptop! The internal card is an unsupported model of the BCM4313 and from what I read (from you, I reckon) getting that one working is a lot more work, so I was hoping to get that dongle supported. Thanks for all your wonderful work!
comment:9 by , 22 months ago
| Component: | Drivers/Network → Drivers/Network/ralinkwifi |
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Will be supported by the ralinkwifi driver once the USB modules are imported.
comment:10 by , 22 months ago
Here's an experimental version of the ralinkwifi driver with USB support. Blocklist your current one and copy this one into /boot/system/non-packaged/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin, while the device is attached. If successful, the device should appear in Network preferences.
comment:11 by , 22 months ago
I committed the driver (with a bunch of fixes, thanks nephele for testing) in hrev56231. Please see if it works on your hardware.
jackburton is a member of the Haiku project. He will probably make his driver part of the sources when it's ready?