Can't install driver for Ralink? USB wifi adapter

[bgaulke]

[quote author=Jerry link=topic=2294.msg17358#msg17358 date=1442779353]
Error suggests you already have the driver in your system.

Mine was a Out of the box enabled after switching out usb wireless "G" for a usb wireless "N"
on mine. All I had to do was change wireless interface preferences from wlan0 to what the current one was showing in

Code:

sudo ifconfig -a

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Hi rokytnji.

What does this tell me relative to what you say you did?

brian@brian-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:8a:35:ff:07 
          inet addr:192.168.2.11  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fd00::202:8aff:fe35:ff07/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fd00::3852:dcf4:96ae:26f2/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::202:8aff:fe35:ff07/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:12941 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:11107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:10519770 (10.5 MB)  TX bytes:1636689 (1.6 MB)

irda0    Link encap:IrLAP  HWaddr 00:00:00:00 
          NOARP  MTU:2048  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:8
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:836 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:836 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:99502 (99.5 KB)  TX bytes:99502 (99.5 KB)

brian@brian-laptop:~$

Nothing stands out as wireless related to me.

Thanks