Once you finish the previous steps you must add the wifi adapter's firmware to your file system, that will let the driver to get access to the firmware necessary to start the hardware. In order to do that you must copy the rt73.bin file into /lib/firmware and the rt73sta.dat file into /etc/Wireless/RT73STA (if the previous folders don't exist you can create them). You can find these files by downloading the wifi dongle's driver, at the time of writing the latest version can be found in [belkin].
Once you have your wifi dongle's driver installed successfully the next step is to get it up and begin the wireless transmission. If you want to know if your wifi adapter was installed without errors you can type iwconfig and then your wifi interface will be shown
Rt73 Usb Wireless Lan Card 2 Driver For Mac
This page only deals with the ieee80211 version of the RT73 driver. For the mac80211 rt73usb version see the mac80211 page. To understand the differences, see mac80211 versus ieee80211 stacks write-up.
IMPORTANTIf you have a new kernel that supports mac80211 and includes the new rt73usb driver then you MUST blacklist it otherwise the ieee80211 version of the module below will not work. See blacklisting mac80211 driver version below.
If you are using Ubuntu (Gutsy, Feisty or Edgy) please follow this guide: Ralink rt73(Some modules must be blacklisted)Even when following the guide above, be sure to use the latest driver version available. 2ff7e9595c
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