Drivers and firmware are what determine if, and how well, your hardware works.ĭebian's Social Contract mandates the freeing of the distribution.
Consequently, the driver/module for one chipset will work for all wireless devices using that chipset.įree software based systems such as Debian depend on the cooperation between manufacturers and developers to produce and maintain quality drivers and firmware. We can find the same chipset in several different devices.
This is a lousy site, but you can download drivers, if you can determine which one you need. The tiny user manual supplied does not mention Linux or Mac. If you want plug and play, this is not for you. I am starting with the wikipedia article on MAKE (Software). I am no bithead, but I un-tarred the file and opened the readme, which seems to give some reasonable instructions on how to MAKE the driver from the source code files provided. I guess this means this is a Ralink rt3070 chipset, using the rt2870 driver?įor Linux, on the supplied driver disk is fileĭPO_RT3X7X_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.4_2. In device manager the driver is listed as rt2870.sys version "3." by Ralink Technology, and shows two hardware ids: USB\Vid_148f&Pid_3070&REV_0101 and USB\Vid_148f&Pid_3070 I had to run the install program from the disk - Windows did not automatically detect and install.
To test, I installed it in a Windows Vista machine. No "plug and play" as reported in Amazon reviews. I hope this answers some questions and saves some heartache.
I purchased the Panda Wifi (b/g/n) 150Mbps Wireless-N (802.11n) USB Adapter from Amazon this week. Right after I set the response email, I got the unit to work, so I can't tell you anything more about the support, but FYI the lsusb returned - Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. Before got the unit working, I sent them strongly worded email and got a prompt and professional response asking for basic troubleshooting information (is the led blinking, run lsusb and ifconfig and forward output to support. This seems to indicate that this unit is plug and play.Ģ) As part of the Amazon sale, I received and email from Panda with an email address for tech support. Two things:ġ) I tried the Panda again this morning, and it works fine.
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