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BUFFALO Wireless N Ultra Compact USB 2.0 Key 802.11B/G/N - WLI-UC-GN

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seaplane

Jun 17, 2009 01:26 PM

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RaLink RT2870

I believe you will find the drivers here
http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html

With more information here
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

I've only had it in my hands for a couple of hours, with one plugged into my ol' Dell Lattitude connects with my Trendnet TEW 633GR at 65Mbps running either band, haven't done the range tests yet.

Topic URL: https://www.ncix.com/forums/topic.php?id=2026623

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Andrew_W

Oct 14, 2009 08:30 PM

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Hey "seaplane" let me know IF you get it working with Linux, stating your distribution and version number.

Thanks

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Rewritable

Oct 19, 2009 01:09 AM

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I have got this adapter working on ubuntu for over 2 months now using ubuntu 9.04 kernel 2.6.28-15-generic and the RT3070USB(RT307x) driver from RALINK website (http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2).

I am using wpa encryption and connection is pretty stable. Transfer rate for wireless G is around 3MB/s with wrt54gl. I don't have wireless N router so I don't know how it perform for N.
The source code from RALINK needs to be modified in order for it to recognize this adapter. Once you extract everything from the gz file, go to
2009_0525_RT3070_Linux_STA_v2.1.1.0/os/linux/
open usb_main_dev.c with text editor
locate /* module table */, you will see a big array structure defining all the device ids that this driver will work with.
add the following entry into the array:
{USB_DEVICE(0x0411,0x015d)}, /* Baffulo WIFI N USB */

Save the file, build and install the driver (Read the README_STA_usb file before you build it, you will probably want to modify some settings so it will work with wpa_supplicant and/or NetworkManager.)

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solderingiron

Jan 12, 2010 05:53 PM

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Thanks for the tip, but for me it did not exactly work.

I ran lsusb -v which shows the following (in part):

idVendor 0x0411 MelCo., Inc.
idProduct 0x014f

So I changed

{USB_DEVICE(0x0411,0x015d)}, /* Baffulo WIFI N USB */

to

{USB_DEVICE(0x0411,0x014f)}, /* Baffulo WIFI N USB */

and now it works.

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solderingiron

Jan 13, 2010 02:04 PM

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One more thing. I was hoping I could use this thing as a cheap and very compact 300 mbps access point under Linux but I had no luck.

Even though the chipset supports master mode, the ralink driver currently does not support the mode, so you cannot use it as an access point under Linux (unless there's a clever way around it, or you modify the source driver to include what is needed).

I also tried the Windows access point driver, but it does not support WPA2, only WEP and WPA. There may be an updated driver that adds WPA2 support, but I did not check since I wanted the AP running under Linux.

No matter, it works great as a regular wifi device and I recommend it for that purpose.

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dont work with vista 64bit (64 bit is the issue n (Jonathan_C- Mar 21, 10, 3 Replies)

compatible with Win 7? (Lisa_H- Jan 15, 10, 1 Replies)

Chip set Linux drivers (seaplane- Jan 13, 10, 4 Replies)

Connection issues?? (Andy_A- Oct 16, 09, 1 Replies)

has anyone tried the range of this N card? (yongwei_a- Jun 14, 09, 0 Replies)

Chipset? (edmidor- Jun 05, 09, 1 Replies)

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