Today, compat-wireless has been replaced by the project, which automates the process of using new drivers on old kernels. Modern kernels (5.x and 6.x) have largely resolved the Ralink driver issues that necessitated the ptar patch.

Should return PTAR active: on .

If you were using this tarball, you were likely holding one of these legendary cards:

Users typically move the archive to a working directory and extract it using the command: tar -jxvf compat-wireless-2010-06-26-p.tar.bz2 .