Ralink drivers and OSX 10.6
I use Raling drivers 3.0 instead of the older (and similarly buggy) ones from the hardware provider, Alfa networks.
The 3.0 drivers do work for any OSX <= 10.5, on windows, and even on Mandiva without installing anytning...
Very curiously, the only way I found to indeed register onto a password-protected or encrypted wifi network is to open a Guest Account session on 10.6, then run the Ralink Wireless Utility from there, and IN THIS CASE everything works fine.
I initially supposed that was coming from my account, some incompatibility with a specific thing. After more (and vain) analysis, the same buggy behavior can be repeated with another completely different mac and non-guest user (same 10.6)
If anyone has any suggestion...
FWIW, similar issues here are described at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2319950&start=15&tstart=0 but the discussion is closed there.
macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)