Got this nice USB adapter (Belkin F5D9050B, 050d:905b ) working in Linux with a little help from the internet... The things I did was these: Download driver from Ralink: RT2571W/RT2671USB, http://web2.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html Unpack driver, modify code as of this Forum post: http://forums.ralinktech.com.tw/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2809 Compile driver as in Module/README, use './Configure / make / make install' instead of 'make config'. Try to configure manually: ifconfig rausb0 192.168.0.X up iwconfig rausb0 channel N iwconfig rausb0 essid 'ESSID' iwpriv rausb0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK iwpriv rausb0 set EncrypType=TKIP iwpriv rausb0 set WPAPSK="ABCDEFXXXX" Check it out: ifconfig: rausb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:3F:10:43:A6 inet addr:192.168.0.N Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1030 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:456 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:122295 (119.4 Kb) TX bytes:37332 (36.4 Kb) iwconfig: rausb0 RT73 WLAN ESSID:"Network" Mode:Managed Channel=N Access Point: 00:13:10:3F:4B:5C Bit Rate=54 Mb/s RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:XXXXXXXXXCD-782B-001B Link Quality=77/100 Signal level:-62 dBm Noise level:-79 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Add route: route add default gw 192.168.0.1 Then adjust the values in /etc/Wireless/RT73STA/rt73sta.dat and your systems network scripts.