See post #3. Not sure it was needed, but I did it. Works OK, but sometimes when I am out of wireless network range for a long time (like an hour) network-manager greys out and a red exclamation mark appears. When returning to a network, the only way I have found to reconnect is reboot. No idea if this is a driver issue or a n-m issue or something else.
Seems to be related to conflict between ralink drivers and -- something in the kernel?
Work around (mostly) by adding the following to /etc/modprobe. d/blacklist. conf
blacklist rt2800pci
blacklist rt2800usb
blacklist rt2x00lib
blacklist rt2x00pci
blacklist rt2x00usb
I also downloaded and compiled the current version of rt2860 drivers based on instructions I found here:
http:// ubuntuforums. org/showthread. php?p=9988272
See post #3. Not sure it was needed, but I did it. Works OK, but sometimes when I am out of wireless network range for a long time (like an hour) network-manager greys out and a red exclamation mark appears. When returning to a network, the only way I have found to reconnect is reboot. No idea if this is a driver issue or a n-m issue or something else.