Alfa AWUS036NH (Ralink RT3070 chipset)

[j4n]

Hi there,

I just recently installed xbian on my Cubox i4-Pro. Everything is running smoothly, but I want to attach my external Alfa AWUS036NH wireless adapter to the unit, and so far I have FAILED.

The wifi adapter has a ralink RT3070 chipset.

I've added "deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free" to "/etc/apt/sources.list" and installed the Debian ralink firmware via:

Code:

sudo apt-get install firmware-ralink

but that doesn't seem to do anything.

I can see the loaded modules with lsmod and none of them look like ralink:

Terminal

root@cubox:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by
hfsplus 75388 1
loop 11220 2
brcmfmac 125180 0
brcmutil 3240 1 brcmfmac
cfg80211 151576 1 brcmfmac
streamzap 3801 0
frandom 3316 2
redrat3 9644 0
rc_loopback 2196 0
mceusb 11145 0
ir_sony_decoder 1896 0
ir_rc6_decoder 2704 0
ir_rc5_sz_decoder 1504 0
ir_rc5_decoder 1848 0
ir_nec_decoder 2544 0
ir_lirc_codec 3584 0
ir_jvc_decoder 1920 0
imon 19720 0
f2fs 86980 0

When I plugin the adapter, the end of

Code:

dmesg

looks like:

Terminal

root@cubox:~# dmesg
[ 288.770261] usb 1-1.1.3: USB disconnect, device number 5
[ 290.802328] usb 1-1.1.3: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ci_hdrc

and it ends there.

Any ideas on where to go from here?