Setting up Edimax EW-7318USg under Linux

This is from here:

Edimax EW-7318USg aka Hawking HWUG1 (rebranded in US)

# Driver : rt73
# Chipset : Ralink
Ralink RT2571W chipset (can be used with rt73 drivers)
chipset : RT2571WF or RT2528L

HOWTO:RT2500 wireless cards etc. sticky
Ralink 257x/2671 using RT73 driver?

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I think that you might be doing some of these steps in the wrong order. eg from the instructions I was given you need to blacklist first. Here are the instructions I use:

1. sudo rmmod rt73usb (remove old drivers)

2. sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add these lines to the end of the file:

blacklist rt73usb
blacklist rt2570
blacklist rt2×00lib
blacklist rt2500usb
blacklist rt2×00usb

3. sudo apt-get install build-essential

4. sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname –r`

5. get the latest version of the driver source from the serialmonkey site. The name is rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz. I saved it in my user dir:

6. sudo wget http://rt2×00.serialmonkey.com/rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz -O ~/rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz

7. sudo tar -zxvf rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz

8. cd ~/rt73*/Module

9. sudo make

10. if the file produced is 2Mb in size there is a problem as it should be about 250Kb. To fix this, use the “strip” command:
strip –S rt73.ko

11. sudo make install

12. sudo modprobe rt73

13. as sudo, edit /etc/modules – add the text rt73 at the end

14. as sudo, create text file called rt73 in /etc/modprobe.d

15. put the text “alias wlan0 rt73” in this file

16. remove /etc/modprobe.conf as it’s no longer needed (back it up first – but note I didn’t have one)

17. add the following to /etc/network/interfaces file. You might need to customise this to suit your particular situation (eg if you don’t use WPA encryption):

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
pre-up ifconfig wlan0 up
pre-up ifconfig wlan0 down
pre-up ifconfig wlan0 up
pre-up iwconfig wlan0 essid “yourSSID” # use quotes if you have spaces in the name of essid
pre-up iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
pre-up iwpriv wlan0 set Channel=11 # change channel accordingly
pre-up iwpriv wlan0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
pre-up iwpriv wlan0 set EncrypType=TKIP
pre-up iwpriv wlan0 set WPAPSK=”yourkey”
pre-up ifconfig wlan0 up

18. reboot