Bug#585917: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#585917: linux-image-2.6.34-1-686-bigmem: My rt2870 USB dongle is not recognized)

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> When I insert my USB wifi dongle (based on the rt2870 chipset, AFAIK),
> Actually RT3070, which is related but not the same.

You might be right, thanks.

>> the 2.6.34-1 kernel doesn't seem to recognize it.  The rt2800usb
>> module is not automatically loaded and even if I load it manually it
>> doesn't seem to care about that USB device.

> This is correct.  rt2800usb does not fully support the RT3070.

>> In 2.6.32-5 kernel, the key used to be recognized (by both rt2800usb
>> and rt2870sta and I had to blacklist one of the two to avoid
>> conflicts).  To be honest, it did not work too well under 2.6.32-5
>> (although I did get it to work with my WPA home network with some
>> previous 2.6.32 kernel), but I'm very surprised that it is
>> simply ignored.

> You should remove the blacklisting of rt2870sta.

But that won't help since linux-image-2.6.34-1-686-bigmem doesn't come
with any rt2870sta:

% dpkg -L linux-image-2.6.34-1-686-bigmem | grep rt2
/lib/modules/2.6.34-1-686-bigmem/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00
/lib/modules/2.6.34-1-686-bigmem/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.34-1-686-bigmem/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2400pci.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.34-1-686-bigmem/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.34-1-686-bigmem/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.34-1-686-bigmem/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500pci.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.34-1-686-bigmem/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.34-1-686-bigmem/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.34-1-686-bigmem/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.34-1-686-bigmem/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00lib.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.34-1-686-bigmem/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.34-1-686-bigmem/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.ko
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-- Stefan