Bug#594561: firmware-ralink: fails to detect APs at frequency 2.472GHz

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:29:22AM +0200, Wenceslao wrote:
> Package: firmware-ralink
> Version: 0.26
> Severity: important
> 
> I recently bought a Wifi stick (SMCWUSBS-N3) which uses the chip Ralink RT3070,
> because they say it works in Linux. I tried to install the driver (through
> firmware-ralink package and through compiling the driver ralink offers in their
> website) and finally it is detected (thanks to posts in internet ... those
> drivers are not working out of the box).
[...]

So far as I know, channel limits are imposed by the driver, not the firmware.
Since you are using the driver from Ralink, not from Debian, you have not (yet)
found a bug in Debian.

There is a version of the driver (rt2870sta) included in our packages of
Linux 2.6.32, which are available in unstable, testing and lenny-backports.
This has combined support for both RT2870 and RT3070 controllers.  Please
remove Ralink's version of the driver, install one of those packages and
test whether the bug exists in this version of the driver.

Ben.

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