[rt2x00-users] WUSB600N in 64-bit Fedora 10

[John Murphy]

Hello fellow Ralink users!

Background - I have a wireless network system with a few various PC's 
and a Linksys WRT610N Wireless-N router, all using WPA security. For 
quite a while I have had my wife's Vista-32 (will never convince her to 
change) machine on the network with a Linksys WUSB600N, and my Fedora 10 
64-bit laptop which has the old bc43 stuff also connects to the network 
with no problem (well, now, it was little bit of work).

I am using a fairly new desktop machine running Fedora 10 64-bit (all 
these Fedora machines are gnome and I tend to keep everything up to date 
if that matters). Since I got the machine I have been using a hardline 
network connection but various reasons in my locality I would prefer at 
some point soon to switch over to the wireless. So I grabbed another 
WUSB600N I have around here and set to work at long last trying to get 
it to operate under Fedora.

As a note - do not let me give the impression I am a Linux expert. In 
fact, I am a n00b who can barely operate the system!

Here is what I did so far...
STEP ONE: I grabbed the following three files from the RPMFusion site at
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/10/x86_64/
kmod-rt2870-2.1.0.0-2.fc10.x86_64.rpm 2009-Mar-29 21:35:17 5.4K 
application/x-rpm
kmod-rt2870-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64-2.1.0.0-2.fc10.x86_64.rpm 
2009-Mar-29 21:35:17 236.9K application/x-rpm
rt2870-2.1.0.0-1.fc10.noarch.rpm 2009-Mar-29 21:35:14 15.9K 
application/x-rpm
STEP TWO: I did su - to change to root, navigated to my Download 
directory, and entered...
rpm -ivh *rt2870*.rpm
No errors were reported. The packages now show up in the Add/Remove 
software GUI as installed.
For my networking configuration I use the (gnome) Network Manager applet 
on the top-right panel. I configured a new connection 'wlan0' with the 
correct SSID and WPA pass phrase (which I verified on my bc43 laptop 
together with the rest of the applet settings for the new connection).

On system restart the device does seem to attempt to log on the wireless 
network. I get the spinning lights at the top right panel for the NetMan 
app, and the WUSB600N LED is going nuts. However it eventually fails and 
asks for the WPA pass phrase, repeatedly until it gives up after some 
number of attempts.

Can anyone help me troubleshoot this or is there an obvious problem I am 
overlooking?

Thanks for your time.