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vladimir pavloski
Asked: 2015-01-05 05:54:44 +0800 CST

"Impossible" to install Ralink rt5370 driver on Xubuntu 14.10

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I really need help to install this driver on Xubuntu 14.10. I couldn't get my WiFi USB network dongle (elmak SAVIO CL-63) which came with a CD-ROM containing the drive for chipset RT5370 for Linux.

I have the latest Linux headers and when I run the lsusb command the result is:

Bus 001 Device 016: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter

I ran the command sudo make clean and after sudo make && make install and the end of compilation is:

 CC [M]  /home/vladimir/2011_0225_RT5370_RT5372_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.1_DPO/os/linux/../../sta/wpa.o
  CC [M]  /home/vladimir/2011_0225_RT5370_RT5372_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.1_DPO/os/linux/../../sta/ags.o
  CC [M]  /home/vladimir/2011_0225_RT5370_RT5372_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.1_DPO/os/linux/../../sta/sta_cfg.o
/home/vladimir/2011_0225_RT5370_RT5372_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.1_DPO/os/linux/../../sta/sta_cfg.c: In function ‘RTMPIoctlShow’:
/home/vladimir/2011_0225_RT5370_RT5372_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.1_DPO/os/linux/../../sta/sta_cfg.c:4935:85: error: macro "__DATE__" might prevent reproducible builds [-Werror=date-time]
             snprintf(extra, size, "Driver version-%s, %s %s\n", STA_DRIVER_VERSION, __DATE__, __TIME__ );
                                                                                     ^
/home/vladimir/2011_0225_RT5370_RT5372_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.1_DPO/os/linux/../../sta/sta_cfg.c:4935:95: error: macro "__TIME__" might prevent reproducible builds [-Werror=date-time]
             snprintf(extra, size, "Driver version-%s, %s %s\n", STA_DRIVER_VERSION, __DATE__, __TIME__ );
                                                                                               ^
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
scripts/Makefile.build:257: recipe for target '/home/vladimir/2011_0225_RT5370_RT5372_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.1_DPO/os/linux/../../sta/sta_cfg.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/home/vladimir/2011_0225_RT5370_RT5372_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.1_DPO/os/linux/../../sta/sta_cfg.o] Error 1
Makefile:1345: recipe for target '_module_/home/vladimir/2011_0225_RT5370_RT5372_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.1_DPO/os/linux' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/vladimir/2011_0225_RT5370_RT5372_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.1_DPO/os/linux] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.16.0-28-generic'
Makefile:356: recipe for target 'LINUX' failed
make: *** [LINUX] Error 2

So I couldn't install the driver. I added to blacklist.conf:

blacklist rt2x00usb
blacklist rt2x00lib
blacklist rt2800usb

and a directory /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA$/RT2870STA.dat was created

How should I proceed?

wireless

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The first step I suggest is to blacklist the driver for the internal card so that the driver suites don't interfere. From a terminal:

    sudo -i
echo "blacklist ath5k"  >>  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
modprobe -r ath5k
exit

    It may take a reboot. If this is ineffective, I will edit this answer with further steps.

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