wifi installation problem

I have been trying to get the wifi adapter working for the past week with no success. My adapter is:

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter

Here is what I did:

- Install the new 2.6.32-5-kirkwood to a usb drive
- Install the firmware-ralink package
- Plug the wifi adapter in and this is what I get:

[ 3768.595917] usb 1-1.2: new high speed USB device using orion-ehci and address 4
[ 3768.733008] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=148f, idProduct=3070
[ 3768.739933] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 3768.747306] usb 1-1.2: Product: 802.11 n WLAN
[ 3768.751681] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Ralink
[ 3768.755892] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 1.0
[ 3768.761912] usb 1-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 3768.863011] cfg80211: Using static regulatory domain info
[ 3768.868474] cfg80211: Regulatory domain: US
[ 3768.872678] 	(start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[ 3768.879948] 	(2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2700 mBm)
[ 3768.886781] 	(5170000 KHz - 5190000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
[ 3768.893600] 	(5190000 KHz - 5210000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
[ 3768.900427] 	(5210000 KHz - 5230000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
[ 3768.907313] 	(5230000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
[ 3768.914135] 	(5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 3000 mBm)
[ 3768.926660] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US
[ 3769.114351] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
[ 3769.117155] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::radio
[ 3769.122724] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::assoc
[ 3769.128384] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::quality
[ 3769.134195] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2800usb

When I checked the loaded modules, this is what I see:

root@debian:~# lsmod |grep rt
rt2800usb              27367  0 
rt2x00usb               6833  1 rt2800usb
rt2x00lib              22696  2 rt2800usb,rt2x00usb
mac80211              150554  2 rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib
cfg80211              114051  2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
crc_ccitt               1125  1 rt2800usb
usbcore               122487  5 rt2800usb,rt2x00usb,usb_storage,ehci_hcd

After turning wlan0 up (using ifconfig wlan0 up), this is what happen:

[ 3818.150082] rt2800usb 1-1.2:1.0: firmware: requesting rt2870.bin
[ 3818.407060] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

I have the following firmware in /lib/firmware

root@debian:~# ls /lib/firmware/
rt2561.bin   rt2661.bin  rt2870.bin  rt3071.bin  rt73.bin
rt2561s.bin  rt2860.bin  rt3070.bin  rt3090.bin

I don't find the rt2870sta.ko anywhere. Only find the directory rt2x00 that has rt2800usb in it.

root@debian:~# ls /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-kirkwood/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
adm8211.ko	 b43legacy  iwmc3200wifi       mwl8k.ko       rtl818x
at76c50x-usb.ko  hostap     libertas	       p54	      wl12xx
ath		 ipw2x00    libertas_tf        rndis_wlan.ko  zd1211rw
b43		 iwlwifi    mac80211_hwsim.ko  rt2x00

My *guess* is the rt2870 that was supposed to be loaded never got loaded. Maybe it was placed in a wrong place. I would think that the "apt-get install firmware-ralink" would have taken care of it. Blacklisting the rt2800usb doesn't help either since rt2870sta is not loaded anyway.

I was wondering if anyone could help me. Most google search found discussions on ubuntu but it is very limited on debian. Please let me know if you have any idea. Thanks.

I have the same adapter. Did you figure out a solution?

No, I gave up.

Are you using an older kernel?

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• davy's Github Repo's rescue-dg

Yes. 2.6.32-5-kirkwood

Driver loads, I see wlan0 but it is not getting dhcp address from my router.
Is there a newer kernel on the Debian repo or I have to compile it? Or, how about backport kernel update? Is it possible? Never tried backport on a kernel before. Does it work?



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/27/2012 08:54PM by metric.