Adding support for RaLink USB Wifi adapters..

[aasoror]

I take no credit for what I am about to list here.

This is all the fine work of mikka (ACR-forums) and whomever he credits for this section (muonic for instructions and Yuri Stranger for drivers).

Easy way is to go through infosite .7, if you want to do it manually (for whatever reasons) here you are.

The following drivers for RaLink chipsets can be added to the box:

• rt2570.zip (RT2500USB(RT2571/RT2572))
• rt2870.zip (RT2870USB(RT2870/RT2770))
• rt3070.zip (RT8070/RT3070USB(RT307x))
• rt3572.zip (RT3572USB)
• rt73.zip (RT2501USB(RT73:RT2571W/RT2573/RT2671))

telnet to the box and execute the following (replace xxx accordingly):

mount -o remount,rw /
mkdir /usr/local/etc/wlan
cd /usr/local/etc/wlan
wget http://playon.unixstorm.org/download/wlan/rtxxx.zip
unzip -o rtxxx.zip
mv rtxxx Ralink
cp /usr/local/bin/wpa_supplicant /usr/local/bin/wpa_supplicant.old
cp /usr/local/bin/wpa_cli /usr/local/bin/wpa_cli.old
cd Ralink
./install.sh
rm -f /usr/local/etc/wlan/rtxxx.zip
mount -o remount,ro /

To uninstall and revert your changes

mount -o remount,rw /
cd /usr/local/etc/wlan/Ralink
./remove.sh 
cd /usr/local/etc/wlan
rm -R Ralink
cd /usr/local/etc
rm -R wlan
mount -o remount,ro /

Prerequisites :
- a bootcode 16 based firmware (regardless of the actual bootcode version of your box).
- room on your root partition, you mod the official firmwares to allocate more space or you can use any of the megapacks (check the semiofficial link in my signature below).

Update:
If the wget commands can't find the file you can download the whole package from here and extract whichever one you need.

[scboley]

Ping him and see if he wants to build any of the generic gigabit nic usb adapter drivers........think of the possibilities with a gb nic on this sucker.....wireless is just such a waste of time in the long run

[BB88]

I wish there will be Atheros chipset support too

[BadIntentions]

Gigabit USB Ethernet would not do any good. The CPU is too slow to drive proper DMA supporting gigabit, let alone trying to do so via USB.

[niceguy]

Hi,
I have bootcode 18 and firmware P05-IMS_Beta.
I tried to add this support for ralink but I have a litle problem.

/usr/local/bin # cp wpa_cli wpa_cli.old
cp: unable to open `wpa_cli.old': Permission denied
/usr/local/bin #

I did the mount / -o remount,rw.
Any ideas ?

[aasoror]

Hi,
I have bootcode 18 and firmware P05-IMS_Beta.
I tried to add this support for ralink but I have a litle problem.

I did the mount / -o remount,rw.
Any ideas ?

official P05-IMS_Beta wont ever remount as rw.
You will need the moddable firmware version (check the "semi-official" link in my sig) for any modding trick to work.

[teixeirap]

I'm away from my device but when I tried installing the module for the RT2870 it does not work.

in dmesg, I see that the PBO detected the adapter being inserted followed by the rt2870 module outputting:
rt2870: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -1

There was a message just before which looked like a memory allocation failure. I'm using P61-Beta- (BC16+).mega.YT.4opt FW.

Can anyone help. I would love to get my PBO working with this adapter in 5GHz in order to get decent streaming of BR/HD content.

Thanks in advance.

[hallandnash]

I tried the 1st command, but it threw an error ...

# mount -o rmount,rw /
mount: Can't find / in /etc/fstab

[snappy46]

I tried the 1st command, but it threw an error ...

# mount -o rmount,rw /
mount: Can't find / in /etc/fstab

The command should be: mount -o remount,rw / you are missing an e so is the first post.

[deems]

Can you confirm whether or not

Prerequisites :
- a bootcode 16 based firmware (regardless of the actual bootcode version of your box).

actually means bootcode 16 OR HIGHER?

Much obliged!

Thanks,
Deems