After I built/installed all the modules myself I was able to load the rt2800pci module, but it didn't see the Alfa. But the rt2800usb module did. I also needed to put a copy of the rt2870.bin in...

1) looks like airdriver-ng can't find the modules .config file.

airdriver-ng kernel
Found following stacks in the Kernel:
grep: /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc6/build/.config: No such file or directory...