Can't install driver for Ralink? USB wifi adapter

[bgaulke]

[size=1em]Hi,

Mediatek don't appear to list a Linux driver, maybe they did at some point..??[/size]

[size=1em]But if you look at this post, 2nd post down, somebody posted a solution,[/size]
[size=1em]with a link to a driver, and a number of people confirmed/said it worked.[/size]
[size=1em]This needs verifying by a LL techy bod, I don't know enough techy stuff...[/size]

[size=1em]GL...[/size]

I tried to extract using sudo tar and got this:

brian@brian-laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo tar -xzvf rt3290sta-2.6.0.0.dkms.tar /usr/src/
[sudo] password for brian:

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
brian@brian-laptop:~/Downloads$

What is the correct command?

Thanks