Hi,all.
I had succeeded to setup fit-PC2i as an access point with Ralink RT3070 usb wifi on ubuntu 10.04 (Kernel 2.6.32-27).
The key to success is remove the old drivers.
I had tried as follows.
1. First of all, find old Wireless modules and remove them.
$ sudo lsmod | grep rt2
$ sudo rmmod rt2800usb
... remove related wireless drivers.
2. Find old Wireless drivers and move to some other locations.
$ sudo updatedb
$ sudo locate rt2800usb.ko
$ sudo locate rt2800lib.ko
$ sudo locate rt2x00usb.ko
$ sudo locate rt2x00lib.ko
$ sudo locate rt2870sta.ko
Move those drivers to some other locations.
3. Download source of latest compat-wireless driver from
http://wireless.kernel.org/
$ wget
http://wireless.kernel.org/download/com ... 20.tar.bz2
4. Compile compat-wireless driver.
$ tar xfv compat-wireless-2010-12-20.tar.bz2
$ cd compat-wireless-2010-12-16
$ ./scripts/driver-select rt2x00
$ make && make install
5. Install hostapd
$ sudo apt-get install hostapd
6. Install bridge-utils
$ sudo apt-get install bridge-utils
7. Edit hostapd.conf
I choose WEP for test , but WPA may works as well.
$ vi /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
interface=wlan0
bridge=br0
driver=nl80211
logger_syslog=-1
logger_syslog_level=2
logger_stdout=-1
logger_stdout_level=2
dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump
ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
ctrl_interface_group=0
ssid=TEST_AP
country_code=JP
hw_mode=g
channel=6
macaddr_acl=0
auth_algs=3
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
wep_default_key=0
wep_key0=0123456789
ieee80211n=1
wpa=0
8. Edit /etc/network/interfaces
$ sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wireless-mode master
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
address 192.168.1.100
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
pre-up ifup eth0
pre-up ifup wlan0
post-down ifdown eth0
post-down ifdown wlan0
bridge_ports eth0 wlan0
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0
bridge_maxwait 0
9. Reboot fit-PC2i and check if it works.
$ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn Mode:Master Frequency:2.437 GHz Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Power Management:on
br0 no wireless extensions.
mon.wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn Mode:Monitor Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Power Management:off
That's all, thanks.