Bug#567359: linux-image-2.6-686: rt2860sta module fails to load - firmware

[Andreas Marschke <xxtjaxx@gmail.com>]

Package: linux-image-2.6-686
Version: 2.6.32+23
Severity: important

The kernel package currently in sid fails to run the rt2860sta wireless driver module.

dmesg | grep rt2860
[    3.392468] rt2860sta: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[    3.425258] rt2860 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[    3.425871] rt2860 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   23.450597] rt2860 0000:01:00.0: firmware: requesting rt2860.bin
[   23.581824] rt2860 0000:01:00.0: firmware file rt2860.bin request failed (-2)
[   29.198604] rt2860 0000:01:00.0: firmware: requesting rt2860.bin
[   29.203053] rt2860 0000:01:00.0: firmware file rt2860.bin request failed (-2)
[   32.586283] rt2860 0000:01:00.0: firmware: requesting rt2860.bin

I'm fully aware of the prompted message at the top but it might be usefull to report it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6-686 depends on:
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686  2.6.32-5   Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs

linux-image-2.6-686 recommends no packages.

linux-image-2.6-686 suggests no packages.

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