Comment 258 for bug 496093

@Mark: Thanks for sharing your experience. During the last 2 week or so I gave some daily Mavericks, installed on an USB stick via usb-crator-gtk, a try, but here I still pretty much had a no go, when it comes to WiFi and my RT2870 based 802.11n USB adapter.
Usually I'm just stuck in the evil and vicious "Authentication required by wireless network" cycle, from which I just can't break free.

But it looks like, that the latest over-sized build with kernel 2.6.35-19-generic from 2 or 3 days, now finally seems to be working again with my WiFi adapter, once I 'modprobe -r rt2800usb' one of the two competing USB-adapter drivers rt2870sta and rt2800usb, using the methods, that started to become so crucial with Karmic. I'm now connected since some 30 minutes straight, a new record since Karmic.

This nuisance, where both wireless USB drivers are getting loaded, was first introduced with Karmic and still hasn't been fixed. I wonder if that ever will still happen. 365 days, 2 Lucid releases and an almost Maverick one should have been plenty of time for that, one would think.

Right now I am d/l'ing the latest, now again correctly sized 10.10 Daily Build ISO file - the Beta release date seems to be getting close - to then update my USB stick, which btw. has to be done with Maverick's usb-creator-gtk version. The one being part of Karmic fails to boot from the stick's logical partitions.
Then I just hope, that the rt2870 nightmare after some 8 months now, eventually has really come to an end - at least until they break something new, that is ;-)