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pdr
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 Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:16 pm Post subject: rt2860.bin? |
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Just installed the spanking new gentoo-sources-2.6.34-r1, which I've been waiting for a while for Ralink RT3090 support. Driver gets loaded but dmesg filled with a bunch of:
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phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2860.bin'.
rt2860pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware: requesting rt2860.bin
phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware
(and when I manually try to start I also see:)
firmware.sh[9693]: Cannot find firmware file 'rt2860.bin'
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And I don't find any firmware ebuild I would hope for such as "net-wireless/rt28-firmware" (there are ones for rt73 and rt61 - the latter masked).
Any idea where I can get the approporiate firmware and where to install it? |
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eccerr0r
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Joined: 01 Jul 2004
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Location: almost Mile High in the USA
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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You can download ralink firmware directly from ralink's site... but don't take it from me as gospel that this is the right solution, I'm still working on trying to get a similar problem resolved...
The kernel will look for firmware in /lib/firmware I believe.
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DONAHUE
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recommend using the staging driver as a module, not the built in. delete the built in to avoid interference. as I remember compiling the staging driver brought in the firmware.
http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 and download firmare to /lib/firmware if my memory is false.
disclaimer: I am on kernel- 2.6.34 and have rt2860's and 2870's, no 30x0's. For these combinations the builtin rt20xx still fails and the staging works. |
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pdr
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Got the firmware installed and that stopped those errors. Last I had checked the Ralink's drivers would not compile when I upgraded to 2.6.31 - when I get a chance I'll try the february build for the rt3090. |
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hossiken
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using built in kernel driver (kernel 2.6.36-r5) ... downloaded the firmware v26 ... created folder /lib/firmware and droped the .bin in... ifconfig wlan0 up (no errors) and now i can iwlist scan and it shows all the AP's in my hood 
very happy... now to configure this thing |
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dugomierjj
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| hossiken wrote: | using built in kernel driver (kernel 2.6.36-r5) ... downloaded the firmware v26 ... created folder /lib/firmware and droped the .bin in... ifconfig wlan0 up (no errors) and now i can iwlist scan and it shows all the AP's in my hood
very happy... now to configure this thing |
Thanks for your post, it helped me to solve the same problem on my eeepc 1000he under debian squeeze
Romain |
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dugomierjj
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 8:46 am Post subject: |
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| Another solution for debian users : install the package firmware-ralink (but you need to add non-free in your /etc/apt/sources.list) |
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