Bug#601976: firmware-ralink: Wireless network unusable when kernel loads with the wireless function button powered off

[David Sánchez Herrero <david.krusty@gmail.com>]

Package: firmware-ralink
Version: 0.27
Severity: important

After a safe-upgrade on my testing system on 2010-10-23, when the system starts
with the wireless function button powered off in my laptop, the network
interface appears disabled, and it's impossible to enable it.

If the system starts with the wireless function button powered on, the network
interface works normally, and you can enable and disable it powered on and off
the wireless function button.

This is the output of "lshw" about mi wireless card:

# lshw -C network
PCI (sysfs)

  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: RT2500 802.11g
       vendor: RaLink
       physical id: 9
       bus info: pci@0000:05:09.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:13:d3:7c:99:59
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2500pci latency=64 multicast=yes
wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
       resources: irq:16 memory:feafa000-feafbfff



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

firmware-ralink depends on no packages.

firmware-ralink recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-ralink suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools               0.98.5     tools for generating an initramfs
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 [lin 2.6.32-9   Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 [lin 2.6.32-26  Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs

-- no debconf information