Ralink can be hit or miss. My guess is you're missing the firmware/drivers, which isn't surprising seeing as this driver is in staging. Be aware you may have to upgrade your kernel to use it. See this page, it may help you:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/rt2870sta">http://wiki.debian.org/rt2870sta</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 January 2011 18:37, YES NOPE9 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yes@nope9.com">yes@nope9.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Dell Inspiron 5100 with Debian squeeze<br>
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I attached a TENDA W311U USB wireless adapter once I felt I had determined there was no built-in wireless.<br>
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when I ran 'ipconfig' I got :<br>
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wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00<br>
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1<br>
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br>
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br>
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000<br>
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)<br>
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when I ran 'lsus' I got :<br>
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Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter<br>
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I am unable to see my wireless router.<br>
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Gus in Denver<br>
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