Looking for a driver for this wireless card

[Picard]

I always struggle to find drivers for cards like these without an apparent manufacturer.

Would you mind helping if you don't struggle like I do.

 

[geezer]

http://www.win-star.com/eshop/goods.php?id=44

 

[GreGorGy]

Ralink RT2760. Great little ralink. Aaar she blows!

 

[InTheCube]

Best way is to install the hardware, and then inside Windows, go to Device Manager -> Unknown Devices, select this card, right-click and select Properties. Then choose the Details tab, and select Hardware IDs from the dropdown.

You will get a string like this: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0091&SUBSYS_52218086&REV_34

This will give you the the Vendor ID (8086 in this case) and Device ID (0091 in this case) of the equipment. Then go to http://www.pcidatabase.com/ and search for the Vendor (8086 = Intel) and on the Vendor page, use your browser functionality to search for the Device ID.

Once you find your device, it will give you the exact details of your device, which you can then use to Google for the appropriate driver. Very often, it will also give you a direct link to the driver file, so that you can start downloading it immediately.

 

[Picard]

^^ Didn't know that. Thanks

 

[ponder]

^^ Didn't know that. Thanks

Linux is even more descriptive (I know you have it in the classroom).

Example for my onboard ethernet (I don't have my wireless card plugged in),

username@obelix:~$ [B]lspci[/B]
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 10)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] (rev a1)
[B]03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)[/B]
04:00.0 Network controller: Winbond Device ffff (rev 01)

For verbose output use (I cut out the extra stuff):

username@obelix:~$ [B]lspci -v[/B]
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-EP45-DS5 Motherboard
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
	I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
	Memory at d5010000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Memory at d5000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K]
	[virtual] Expansion ROM at d5020000 [disabled] [size=64K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169

lspci -vv & lspci -vvv is even more verbose and lspci -n & lspci -nn will list the device id's.
The above is for PCI cards, if you have a USB device use the lsusb command.
http://linux.die.net/man/8/lspci
http://linux.die.net/man/8/lsusb

Once you have the chipset manufacturer & model for your device just google the chipset manufacturers name and go look on their site for drivers for your model.


Or if you look at the main chip on the board the Ra tells you it's manufactured by Ralink, The first number on the chip is usually the model number and if you Google RT2760T it will also tell you Ralink is the manufacturer.

 

[GreGorGy]

Or if you look at the main chip on the board the Ra tells you it's manufactured by Ralink, The first number on the chip is usually the model number and if you Google RT2760T it will also tell you Ralink is the manufacturer.

Hence my direct answer