Bug#607163: firmware-ralink: USB Dongle using driver rt2870sta doesn't get wireless n Speeds

[Lawrence <LawrenceBayly@hotmail.com>]

Package: firmware-ralink
Version: 0.27
Severity: normal

I have a Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7711UTn nLite Wireless Adapter [Ralink RT2870]
adapter that is supposed to be a wireless n adapter, but I am only able to get a maximum speed of 54Mbps suggesting it is only running at G speeds

Here is the output of iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     Ralink STA  ESSID:"Bayly Network"  Nickname:"RT2870STA"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.457 GHz  Access Point: 00:23:69:82:F5:AC
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:46E3-AA0D-9B37-26ED-6E53-D43C-BAF0-A3BC
          Link Quality=77/100  Signal level:-51 dBm  Noise level:-83 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

The adapter is connected to a wireless n Access Point and I can confirm that the adapter is capable of achieving those speeds on windows XP.

Please let me know if you need any other information

Thanks,
Lawrence Bayly

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

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

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-2.6.32-5-686 [lin 2.6.32-29  Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs

-- no debconf information