Ralink Rt2870 Driver Windows 10

Info about the driver:
Name: MediaTek/Ralink RT2870, RT2770, RT307X, RT2070, RT357X, RT3370, RT8070, RT5X7X, MT7610, MT7601, MT7612U USB Wireless Lan drivers
DriverVer = 11/16/2017, 5.01.34.0002 (mod)
OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7/8/10 (32/64 bits)
MediaTek/Ralink chipsets are supported:
RT2870, RT2770, RT307X, RT2070, RT357X, RT3370, RT8070, RT5X7X, MT7610, MT7601, MT7612U
Supported Devices: (the unit)
'Ralink 802.11n Wireless LAN Card'
'Foxconn Wi-Fi BGN CPWL802P'
'Foxconn Wi-Fi CPWL812P BG'
'Foxconn Wi-Fi BGN CPWL801P'
'Foxconn Wi-Fi BGN CPWL821P'
'Wireless LAN Foxconn CPWB102P-RT3090L'
'Ralink 802.11n Wireless LAN Card'
'802.11n Wireless PCI Express Card LAN Adapter'
'Ralink 802.11n Wireless LAN Card'
'802.11N Wireless CardBus Adapter'
'802.11N Wireless Express Card Adapter'
'RT2790/2720 Ralink 802.11b/g/n WLAN mini-PCIE Network'
'ASUS 802.11n Wireless LAN Card'
'802.11n Wireless LAN Card'
'Wireless LAN Card'
'802.11n Wireless LAN Card'
'802.11n Wireless PC Card'
'802.11n Wireless miniPCI Adapter'
'802.11n Wireless PCI Adapter'
'Conceptronic 300Mbps 11n PC-Express Card'
'Conceptronic 300Mbps 11n PCI-Express Card'
'802.11b/g/n PCI Wireless LAN Card'
'Logitec LAN-WN23/CB Wireless LAN Adapter'
'Logitec LAN-WN23/EC Wireless LAN Adapter'
'I-O DATA WN-GDN/CB3 Wireless LAN Adapter'
'I-O DATA WHG-AGDN/CB Wireless LAN Adapter'
'IEEE 802.11b/g/n Wireless Network Adapter'
'Wireless 11n PCI card'
'Wireless 11n PCI card'
'CG-WLCB300AGN'
'CG-WLCB300GNS'
'CG-WLCB300GNM'
'Allwin Wireless LAN Card -2760'
'Allwin Wireless LAN Card -2790'
'Allwin Wireless LAN Card AWM55N-M'
'Allwin Wireless LAN Card -2890'
'Allwin Wireless LAN Card AWM56N-X'
'Allwin Wireless LAN Card -3091'
'Allwin Wireless LAN Card -3092'
'Allwin Wireless LAN Card -3062'
'Allwin Wireless LAN Card -3592'
'Allwin Wireless LAN Card -3562'
'Ralink RT3090 BGN Wireless LAN Card'
'LG-Ericsson PCI-1020 Wireless 802.11n PCI Adapter'
Supported controllers (VEN & DEV):
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_0601
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_0681
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_0701
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_0781
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_3090
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_3091
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_3092
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_5390
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_5392
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_5362
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_5360
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_539F
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_3592
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_3593
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_3060
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_3062
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_3562
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_3290
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_0781 & SUBSYS_68901462
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_0781 & SUBSYS_890A1462
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_3090 & SUBSYS_68911462
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_3090 & SUBSYS_891A1462
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_3091 & SUBSYS_68921462
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_3090 & SUBSYS_38721462
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_3090 & SUBSYS_872A1462
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_3090 & SUBSYS_891B1462
PCI VEN_1814 & DEV_3090 & SUBSYS_872B1462

MediaTek/Ralink RT2870 USB Wireless Lan drivers v. The new package of drivers for network adapters WiFi based on MediaTek/Ralink chipset. Drivers and software (MediaTek/Ralink WLAN Utility) are intended for stable operation of the network WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n under operating systems Windows XP, Vista, 7/8/10 at 32 or 64 bits. In Internet Explorer, click Tools, and then click Internet Options. On the Security tab, click the Trusted Sites icon. Click Sites and then add these website addresses one at a time to the list: You can only add one address at a time and you must click Add after each one.

Free driver ralink download software at UpdateStar. » driver ralink rt2870 wireless lan card. Driver updates in the Windows Device Manager disappears.

The driver downloads offered below for the RT2870 are designated for business partner use. By downloading MediaTek product drivers you acknowledge they are provided without warranty and MediaTek does not provide direct support to end-users. Download Ralink RT2561 Drivers for Windows 10 (32bit 64 bit) 73. The driver downloads offered below for the RT2860 are designated for business partner use. By downloading MediaTek product drivers you acknowledge they are provided without warranty and MediaTek does not provide direct support to end-users. Drivers for Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 MediaTek / Ralink RT2870 USB Wireless Lan drivers version 5.1.24.0 WHQL MediaTek / Ralink RT2870 USB Wireless Lan drivers version 5.1.24.0 WHQL - The new official package of drivers for network adapters WiFi based on MediaTek and Ralink chipset.

This is a HowTo about getting a Ralink RT2870 WLAN USB Stick on a Siemens Fujitsu PI 3645 with (K)Ubuntu 8.10 64bit (Intrepid Ibex) to work. The native Linux driver provided by Ralink Technology is being used.

I recently bought a Siemens Fujitsu Desktop PC PI 3645 and was really amazed that nearly all hardware was working out of the box with Kubuntu 8.10 64bit.

However the built-in WLAN adapter was not working. It showed up that it is a Ralink RT2870 USB Stick, somehow integrated although I haven’t found it yet.

My first try to get it working was with ndiswrapper. But I didn’t have a 64 bit Windows driver at hand, so I decided to use the original Linux driver provided by Ralink Technology.

The following posts have been of good use to me, still they have been a way too complicated or did not describe the way I got it working: “Followup on the Belkin F5D8053 and Ubuntu”, “Install linux drivers for ralink rt2870” or “rt2870”.

UPDATE (2009/10/02): The links to the official Ralink drivers have been updated as version 2.2.0.0 of the driver package was released in Aug 2009. Still this version was not tested by me but I am happy if you leave a comment about your experiences.

Now let’s get started:

1.) First thing is to prepare the system for the driver compilation. Therefore it is needed to install certain tools and the headers of the running kernel:

  • sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

2.) Now the source for the Linux driver needs to be downloaded from the Linux support page of Ralink Technology.

  • Download this package (alternative mirror):
    wget http://www.ralinktech.com/license_us.php?n=2&p=0&t=U0wyRnpjMlYwY3k4eU1EQTVMekV5THpFMUwyUnZkMjVzYjJGa05UYzBNVFExTkRNNU5TNWllakk5UFQxU1ZESTROekJmVEdsdWRYaFRWRUZmVmpJdU15NHdMakF1ZEdGeUxuUmhjZz09Qw%3D%3D
  • Extract it somewhere:
    tar xvfj RT2870_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.0.tar.tar.bz2

3.) Now the support of wpa_supplicant should be enabled in the file os/linux/config.mk of the driver package.

  • Open the file with your favorite text editor, for example GNU Emacs:
    emacs os/linux/config.mk
  • Change the following attributes from “no (=n)”:

    # Support Wpa_Supplicant
    HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=n

    # Support Native WpaSupplicant for Network Maganger
    HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=n

    … to value “yes (=y)”:

    # Support Wpa_Supplicant
    HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y

    # Support Native WpaSupplicant for Network Maganger
    HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y

4.) Afterwards the driver needs to be build and installed. Make sure to execute both commands in the root of the driver package and with superuser privileges:

  • sudo make
  • sudo make install

5.) Last thing is to add this driver to /etc/modules so that it is loaded automatically every time the system is rebooted.

  • Open the file with your favorite text editor, for example GNU Emacs:
    emacs /etc/modules
  • Add the following line:
    rt2870sta

    (others reported that they had only success by adding “alias ra0 rt2870sta“)

6.) If you do not want to reboot your machine, you should execute the following two lines with superuser privileges to load the driver and to integrate it in your networking configuration:

  • sudo modprobe rt2870sta
  • sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Now in my case with Kubuntu the KNetworkManager came up and listed me all available WLAN networks. Even without wpa_supplicant I was able to connect to my WPA2 encrypted network as KNetworkManager seems to have build-in WPA2 support.