Three recent postings on wireless usb have gone unanswered--I hope this doesn't suffer the same fate.  Unfortunately I have not found any thread which documents success with wireless usb in openwrt, although there have been several announcements of success.  This wireless usb stick installed and worked without a problem on an alix 3c3 under slax linux.

I'm trying to install a wireless usb device on a NSLU2.  lsusb reports it as follows:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:2573 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2501USB Wireless Adapter

When I boot with kmod-rt2500-usb installed, dmesg reports as follows:

phy0 -> rt2500usb_init_eeprom: Error - Invalid RT chipset detected.
phy0 -> rt2x00lib_probe_dev: Error - Failed to allocate device.

Googling on "rt2500usb_init_eeprom: Error" shows that this is a common occurrance, apparently because the vendor/id code was reused with a different chipset.  The recommended fix is to use the kmod-rt73-usb module.  I have that installed (after removing kmod-rt2500-usb), as shown by "lsmod | grep rt"

rt73usb                15872  0
rt2x00usb               4064  1 rt73usb
rt2x00lib              13696  2 rt73usb,rt2x00usb
usbcore                84468  6 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,ohci_hcd,rt73usb,rt2x00usb
mac80211              125404  2 rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib
cfg80211               17608  2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
crc_itu_t                992  1 rt73usb.

But dmesg shows that no link is being made between the device and rt73usb.

usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'.

What needs to be done to associate this device and this driver?