Ralink RT3060 wireless device configuration on ubuntu 12.04

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Published on 2012-10-12T11:20:36Z Indexed on 2012/10/12 15:49 UTC
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concerning How do I get a Ralink RT3060 wireless card working?

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with a 'LWPX07 Edimax EW-7711In 150M 1T1R WL PCI Card' which has a rt3060 chip. Out of the box the card is recognized as rt2800sta. I tried solution one, that didn't work. Still the card connects to the wireless network, but it seems to slow to load any pages.

Then I tried solution 2, but then the network-manager doesn't see any wireless device.

$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.
ra0       Ralink STA  
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:0  invalid misc:0
eth0      no wireless extensions.

$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
rt3562sta             882296  0

$ lspci -v
05:02.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3060 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R
    Subsystem: Edimax Computer Co. Device 7711
    Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 23
    Memory at ff9f0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: rt2860
    Kernel modules: rt3562sta, rt2800pci

Am I missing a configuration step? How do I tell the network card which driver to use?

Thanks in advance Stephan

I found the problem. As described in stevens blog http://steveswinsburg.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/how-to-install-a-d-link-dwa-525-wireless-network-card-in-ubuntu-10-04/

sudo su make && make install

"You need to use ‘sudo su’ and not just ‘sudo’ so it creates the directories properly." That is the problem with the solution describe above.

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