F5D7050 (2571wf chip) does NOT work in Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 5

[unixnewbie]

I just tried to use Gutsy Gibbon Alpha 5 (Tribe 5) and it still does not work with the Belkin F5D7050, not sure of the version it is but it does have a 2571wf chip in it. I am including a pastebin link which has the lsusb output, dmesg error's, the kernel found with uname -r, and the lsmod | grep rt command. May I ask why this is still not working as it hasn't ever, even back to Dapper?

http://pastebin.com/m4b8b36e7

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Please attach the output of lsusb -v.

Thanks
chuck

[unixnewbie (darfsten)]

here is the syslog from trying to enable it as well as the lsusb -v you requested. I have not blacklisted anything and it appears from dmesg that both the rt73usb and the rt2x00usb are trying to use it.

syslog
http://pastebin.com/m12d284fe

lsusb -v
http://pastebin.com/m7e6d18

Also, it appears as though user Austin_KW has some knowledge regarding this and maybe can help here?? See ubuntu forums post here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=400236&page=65

[unixnewbie (darfsten)]

Huh? I provided the requested info awhile ago, did this get lost somehow? Shouldn't this be a bug that should be worked on for the release of Gutsy? Any more info needed I would be happy to provide as this is a "major bug" IMO.

[Nicolas Deschildre (ndeschildre)]

Hi!

Having a similar USB wifi stick (edimax EW-7318USg featuring the same RT73 chipset as yours), i had also problems, but in feisty (not upgraded yet).
The point is, the solution I found was to fall back to the legacy driver (rt73 instead of rt73usb, the new driver) and it works well.
I dig up a little and found this on the rt2x00 forum [1], concerning feisty. Basically, "The Ubuntu-shipped rt73usb is quite old and not functional. ". The version used in ubuntu feisty is 0cvs20061202-1. Now i have checked for current gutsy's version : 0cvs20070219-2ubuntu1.
So my guess is that a more recent CVS snapshot of rt2x00 should fix this problem...

Anyway in order to have all the necessary information to process the bug, could you give us the remaining needed information :
- The output of "cat /proc/version_signature"

Thanks!

[1] http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3803&sid=78cc240242b4c4b95d84f890d2296daf

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

Thanks for providing debugging info.

[Andreas Gnau (rondom)]

Is this fixed, now?

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 134660, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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