Bug#935787: general: RaLink RT2870 usb wifi cannot connect (worked on Jessie)
Package: general
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
I recently did a fresh upgrade from Debian 9 Stable to Debian 10 Stable. On Debian 9, my usb wifi (D-Link System DWA-140 RangeBooster N Adapter(rev.B1) [Ralink RT2870]) worked fine after installing firmware-misc-nonfree. However, on Debian 10 it can no longer make a connection to my wifi router. The system log reports that authentication and associated are successful, but the connection attempt times out report 'ip-config-unavailable'.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Package firmware-misc-nonfree was installed.
I amended /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf to add the lines:
[device]
scan-rand-mac-address=no
* What was the outcome of this action?
The above actions did not solve the problem - the same error message occurred.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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