<snip> support for the 5390 is probably not on the livedvd a system rescue cd may provide
from my menuconfig: I use several rotating usb ralinks --- Ralink driver support < > Ralink rt2400 (PCI/PCMCIA) support < > Ralink rt2500 (PCI/PCMCIA) support < > Ralink rt2501/rt61 (PCI/PCMCIA) support < > Ralink rt27xx/rt28xx/rt30xx (PCI/PCIe/PCMCIA) support < > Ralink rt2500 (USB) support < > Ralink rt2501/rt73 (USB) support <M> Ralink rt27xx/rt28xx/rt30xx (USB) support [*] rt2800usb - Include support for rt33xx devices [*] rt2800usb - Include support for rt35xx devices (EXPERIMENTAL) [*] rt2800usb - Include support for rt53xx devices (EXPERIMENTAL) [*] rt2800usb - Include support for rt55xx devices (EXPERIMENTAL) [*] rt2800usb - Include support for unknown (USB) devices [ ] Ralink debug output Menuconfig help for RT53XX: CONFIG_RT2800USB_RT53XX: This adds support for rt53xx wireless chipset family to the rt2800usb driver. Supported chips: RT5370 Symbol: RT2800USB_RT53XX [=y] Type : boolean Prompt: rt2800usb - Include support for rt53xx devices (EXPERIMENTAL) Location: -> Device Drivers -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y]) -> Wireless LAN (WLAN [=y]) -> Ralink driver support (RT2X00 [=m]) -> Ralink rt27xx/rt28xx/rt30xx (USB) support (RT2800USB [=m]) Defined at drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig:169 Depends on: NETDEVICES [=y] && WLAN [=y] && RT2X00 [=m] && \ RT2800USB [=m]