I've installed Linux Mint 16 on a netbook that I'm trying to pump more life into. I'm currently stuck with configuring the wireless as the computer uses a USB wireless adapter (rt5370 from Ralink) due to its own wireless interface being hard blocked (the fn key is broken).
The connection is protected by WPA.
I installed the Linux driver, and I'm able to scan for networks nearby. However, when I try to:
$ wpa_supplicant -B -i ra0 -DWext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
I get:
ra0: Unsupported driver 'wext'
I've tried different drivers, and none of them work. I've also tried finding out what driver the wireless adapter uses (in theory it should be rt5370sta which is what I installed) to no avail. Tried lsusb
, lspci -k
, and lsmod
; but none of them list the driver I need to be using.
Does anyone know whether I'm asking the right question or if the problem lies somewhere else? I was confident this was it as iwlist ra0
does work, and /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
is configured as per the instructions over here:
I tried wifi-radar, which gets stuck on the same issue (ends up completely unresponsive and I have to reboot computer in order to start it up again; killing the process doesn't work).
The computer has no internet access, but I can use Keryx to update or install packages.
Any help with figuring this out in order to get the internet working is very much appreciated!
rt2x00
driver in the official kernel for some time now. Searching Google forrt5730 linux ralink
gives tons of recent pages with instructions for Debian and Ubuntu.