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

[Wenceslao González-Viñas <wens@fisica.unav.es>]

I installed in fact both (without putting them in automatic loading 
after boot). With both drivers happen the same. I may be wrong, but I 
tried very much to do in such a way they do not interfere. In the case 
of Debian compliant was the non-free section of Squeeze (testing), 
version 0.26.

Wenceslao

El 08/27/10 17:20, Ben Hutchings escribió:
> 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.
>
>