Rt2870 Driver problems

[RedRyder]

I am having a problem with getting my Asus usbac-51 wifi adapter to work. I have tried different ways to download and compile the driver but nothing I have tried seems to work. If anyone has a simple step by step I would greatly appreciate it. It uses the ralink rt2870 chip.

 

[Bethlehem]

Need more info bub.
What distro are you using? Do you have the proper developmental packages installed for compiling a new kernel module? Was there *any* online guide that you have tried that you can show us?
What are these *different* ways you've tried? Because I know from experience that practicing santeria sure as hell don't do a lot to fix these things.
Now where's my mojo poppet!

 

[RedRyder]

I am running Linux mint 17.3 cinnamon. I believe I have installed all the packages I need, but I may not. I have been to several sites that are supposed to explain the steps for compiling the driver for rt2870 chip. I however, get stumped somewhere in the lessons. I have downloaded several driver packages that I was told to use but they all seem to come up with errors in the make step. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

 

[Bethlehem]

OK, without much to go on, it sounds like you just don't have the stuff needed to compile a kernel module. Maybe you need to install the kernel-headers and build-essential packages.
This should do the trick for that.

apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Hey, looking here, this seems to be right up your alley:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=191243

 

[RedRyder]

I did the apt-get command earlier so it should be in my system. I will attempt to follow the process in the forum. Thanks, I will let you know if it works

 

[RedRyder]

I gave up trying to us the rt2870 and bought a new pci card from Think Penquin. Works great right out of the box.