On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 16:45 +0100, Stefan Hett wrote:
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> >> I've also tested the latest testing build of firmware-ralink (version
> >> 0.18) which reports the same dmesg.
> >>
> >> kernel: debian-server 2.6.26-2-686
> >> (also tested with latest testing kernel: 2.6.30-2-686)
> >>
> > Please also test 2.6.31-trunk-686 from experimental (this is meant to be
> > in unstable now, but there is a delay in adding new binary packages to
> > unstable).
> >
> I've been trying for an hour now getting the kernel from experimental
> but failed. I've tried adding the following entry to the sources.list
> file, but aptitude could not find any 2.6.31 version.
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
You should install linux-image-2.6.31-trunk-686. Upgrading
linux-latest-2.6-686 will not work..
> I don't see any listed kernel in
> http://packages.debian.org/experimental/kernel/ either.
The source package is 'linux-2.6', not 'kernel'.
> FYI:
> I've also tried manually building the latest driver version available at
> the ralink page:
> http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2
> RT2501PCI/mPCI/CB(RT61:RT2561/RT2561S/RT2661) - 01/23/2009 - 1.1.2.3
> When using this driver, the card showed up iwconfig.
Ralink's official driver has somewhat better hardware support but is so
poorly integrated with the kernel wireless networking system that
external developers ending up writing a completely new driver for
inclusion in the kernel. If it works for you, that's great, but rt61pci
still needs to be fixed.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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