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Re: help with Sabrent 802.11N PCI wireless card, Ralink driver?



Just after posting this I found these pages:

http://wiki.debian.org/rt2860sta
http://wiki.debian.org/rt2800pci

which explain that for wheezy rt2800pci is now used instead of rt2860sta.

Still, I get this error message... Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Keith

> I am attempting to install a Sabrent 802.11N PCI wireless adapter card
> into a fresh wheezy install. I guess I am confused about which firmware
> and driver to use.
>
> When I do a ifup wlan0 I get the follwing error mesage:
>
> phy0 -> rt2800pci_mcu_status: Error - MCU request failed, no response from
> hardware
>
> Here are some relevant info:
>
> output of lsmod | grep -i rt
> rt2800pci              13628  0
> rt2800lib              39000  1 rt2800pci
> crc_ccitt              12331  1 rt2800lib
> rt2x00pci              12768  1 rt2800pci
> rt2x00lib              29031  3 rt2800pci,rt2800lib,rt2x00pci
> mac80211              166120  3 rt2800lib,rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
> cfg80211              113073  2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
> eeprom_93cx6           12423  1 rt2800pci
>
> output of lspci -kv -nn | grep -i ralink
> 00:0e.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT2800 802.11n PCI
> [1814:0601]
> 	Subsystem: Ralink corp. Device [1814:2860]
>
> output of uname -r
> 3.1.0-1-686-pae
>
> root@adam:~# ifup wlan0
> [ 1653.608888] phy0 -> rt2800pci_mcu_status: Error - MCU request failed,
> no response from hardware
>
> output of dmesg | grep phy0
> [    7.436518] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm
> 'minstrel_ht'
> [    7.439976] Registered led device: rt2800pci-phy0::radio
> [    7.440172] Registered led device: rt2800pci-phy0::assoc
> [    7.440303] Registered led device: rt2800pci-phy0::quality
> [ 1653.608888] phy0 -> rt2800pci_mcu_status: Error - MCU request failed,
> no response from hardware
>
> from the Debian package details page for firmware-ralink (0.34):
> This package contains the binary firmware for wireless network cards with
> the Ralink RT2501 [Turbo], RT2600, RT5201 [Turbo], RT5600, RT5201USB,
> RT2800P[D], RT2700P[D], RT2700E[D], RT2800E[D], RT2800U[D] or RT3000E[D]
> chipsets or RT3070/RT3071/RT3072 chips, supported by the rt61/rt61pci,
> rt73/rt73usb, rt2860sta, rt2870sta/rt2870, rt3070sta or rt3090sta drivers.
>
> I have rt2860.bin loaded in /lib/firmware/ (among others)
>
> This is a dual boot system- XP uses the card just fine, Knoppix does as
> well when booted from live cd (using rt2860sta module).
>
> I think I need the rt2860sta driver. I have tried to compile the driver
> from the ralink website with no success, is there a precompiled binary
> someplace?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Keith Ostertag
>



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