Ralink wireless usb problem

Been trying to get my Edimax EW-7318USg wireless usb adapter to work in BT and its proving rather difficult : /

Im running BT in VMware Workstation 7, and am using NAT. My wired ethernet connection works like a charm.

When I plug in my adapter I make sure that its being used by VMware correctly.

when I run iwconfig my adapter is in there as wlan0

so far so good...

If I run wicd my wired network shows up but no wireless, theres also no blinking activity light on my adapter at all at any point.

I then try putting it in monitor mode with airmon-ng start wlan0, followed by using airodump-ng mon0 to detect the networks in the area...again nothing.

Im assuming that I need to install the correct drivers?

So Ive been to the Edimax site and downloaded the Linux driver (RT73_Linux_STA_Drv1.1.0.1) and tried following their instructions in the readme but this has made no change whatsoever, I can only assume that Ive installed the driver incorrectly?

If someone has the knowledge to help me Id greatly appreciate it

Nevermind, got it working ;)

I still am having same problem with that particular USB device. We discussed the problem earlier at http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...er-update.html.

It should be noted that Lupin has a solution that helped me get other wireless devices, with different chipsets, to work at http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...lders-etc.html The problem was that the "the /lib/modules/2.6.34/build directory was linked to the wrong location" and that did prevent the new drivers for other 802.11 USB devices from working. Even with Lupin's fix I cannot get the RT2501USB to work....

I have yet to get mine to work. Even after the instilation of the newest available drivers and kernel upgrade I find either the conncction is sub-par and lacking severley OR the connection level is read as way to high (100% in Wcid) and the connection does not work at all. The power levels are much too high according to airodump.

I wonder how I am going to get this to work, I am still in the process of searching over and over again, still finding nothing. Dont get me wrong I have found some tuts and howto's but nothing has fixed mine yet.

Following the Howto from this link, also from http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...-wireless.html

Nothing seems to work. Both processes complete sucesfully however the end result is as I have explained.

For some reason I cannot edit my last post to reflect this one...

I am just about to give up on this. Devs patch doesnt work. No patches work. Still either detecting no networks, Networks with +80 PWR or networks that barely get picked up when I am 10 meters from the acess point.

I have gone from RTL8187 which cannot surf the net, to RT3070 which cannot inject, cannot surf the net, cannot do a damn thing.

I have made such a huge mistake in buying those two, Now I have to search for something else... God I wish I knew how to fix this!