BeagleBoard Ralink Wifi USB with Buildroot
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BeagleBoard Ralink Wifi USB with Buildroot

I have a BeagleBoard Rev C5 and I am using Buildroot to make a simple custom Linux system. I'm developing on an Ubuntu 10.04 VM on a Windows 7 host machine. I purchased a Ralink wifi USB dongle and have verified that both Windows 7 and Ubuntu can recognize and use the dongle.  When I boot my BeagleBoard after building the system with Buildroot I cannot seem to get the board to recognize the USB wifi dongle, let alone use it.

I have configured Buildroot with udev, wifi-tools, usbutils, usbmount, libusb, and wpa_supplicant. Under 'Hardware Control', I selected linux-firmware and Ralink 30XX driver support. 

I've tried to follow several examples but they seem to be focused on using a full-blown distribution like Angstrom or Ubuntu and I want to build a custom kernel with Buildroot:

On Host Machine with USB wifi adapter connected, I get the following outpuf from the lsusb command:

    3070 Ralink Technology, Corp.



If I run lsusb on the target, I get:
unable to initialize libusb: -99

I'm not sure where to go from here. How can I get the BeagleBoard to realize the USB dongle using Buildroot and how can I load those Ralink drivers? Thanks in advance.