Problem

Many people report that their Ralink chip (RT2500, RT73, RT2870) based usb-wlan stick isn't recognized after a reboot using the original Ralink driver. The stick has to be unplugged and replugged to be used. Because of a driver design bug the correct driver isn't found and/or loaded at start-up. If the stick gets replug, the matching process for finding the correct driver is run again and the correct driver is found. But unplugging and replugging is tedious.

Solution

A solution would be a dummy driver, which simulates un- und replugging. So the original driver gets a second chance to be loaded. This is exactly what this driver does.

License

The license has change. It is not donationware anymore. The manufacturers / distributors have to license the RT2500Replug driver and to distribute it themselves. You may not redistribute it without permission from the author.

Individuals

If the manufaturer of your WLAN-USB-Dongle didn`t license my driver, you have to license it directly from me. Just send me 15 CHF, 10 EUR or 15 USD by PayPal / credit card and you`ll get the driver by email.

Version History

0.2.0b1

First published Version

0.3.0b1

The bug, that it was loaded all the times, should be corrected.

Time between load trials is adjusted

0.3.1b1

First version as universal binary

0.3.3b1

Changes in the Info,plist to improve loading on PCs running Intel-MacOSX

0.4

Support for RT73 chip-set usb dongles

Support for further vendors and products

0.5.3

Support for RT2870 802.11n chip-set usb dongles

Other Problems and Solutions

Crash after unplugging / USBWirelessUtility doesn`t get loaded

Sometimes the USBWirelessUtility doesn't get loaded at startup and you don't get connected to your WLAN. If you unplug your WLAN-USB stick and the USBWirelessUtility isn't running, your mac could/will even crash. A work around is just to add it to the startup items using

System Preferences -> Accounts -> Login items.

Uninstall RT2500Replug

Just delete the kernel extension RT2500Replug.kext in the folder
/System/Library/Extensions. That`s all!