[needs-packaging] rt28xx-linux-sta wireless drivers

[Taneli Leppä]

Ralink provides Linux drivers for some of their wireless cards that are not supported by the rt2x00 drivers:

http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html

It would be great if these drivers were available as Ubuntu packages.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in linux which is the kernel for Hardy Heron.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Stefan ported the rt2x00 Serial Monkey drivers to linux-backports-modules. Please give them a try.

[Daryl (daryl-ball)]

As far as i can tell the rt2x00 drivers do not support the rt2870 chipset. the backported modules don't appear to work, even when manually loading the rt2x00usb module.

[Andreas Gnau (rondom)]

rt2x00 doesn't work with the new rt2870-chipset.

[Matthew Kent (mkent)]

Anyone looking for an immediate solution can see http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4808839&postcount=6

[CMasami (cmasami)]

Ralink shipped out new v1.3 driver. It supports both 2.4 and 2.6 kernel.
http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html

[garthberry (garthberry)]

Here is a patch to the v1.3.1.0 driver from ralink to allow it to compile under linux kernels > 2.6.26. I have only done minimal testing, it is working well for me.

[Oibaf (oibaf)]

1.4.0.0 version is out.

[V1.4.0.0]
1. Add IWEVGENIE in iwlist ra0 scan.
2. Add new WSC hardware push button function
3. Add Ad-Hoc to support N rate.
4. Add "iwpriv ra0 set CarrierDetect=0(or 1)"
5. Add Station N only mode in Infra mode. (Only connects to N-AP)
6. Add Global country domain (ch1-11:active scan, ch12-14 passive scan)
7. Fixed connection failed with Range Maximizer - 515 AP (Marvell Chip) when security is WPAPSK/TKIP.
8. Fixed crash in LinkDown when there are >64 APs exists.
9. Fixed compile error when CARRIER_DETECTION_SUPPORT is enabled.
10. Fixed suspend/resume error when ra0 down, ra0 up
11. Modified iwpriv ra0 get_site_survey: When security of AP is OPEN/WEP or SHARED/WEP, show UNKNOW/WEP in scan list.
12. When the secondary channel of AP exceeds the country region's range, station will auto fallback to 20MHz. i.e. need both control and secondary channel are both
        in country region's channel list.
13. Migrate Mesh supporting to Draft-2.0.
14. Support DLS
15. Support WAPI functionality
16. Support Linux Kernel 2.6.27
17. Fixed WPS failed when AP is not in scan table or AP's channel changing after user sets "iwpriv ra0 wsc_start"
18. Add WPS Wireless Event strings.
19. Fixed WPA(2)PSK issue when group cipher of AP is WEP40 or WEP104.

[Henrik S. (henrik-hw0)]

Uploaded package for Ubuntu Intrepid here:
http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/details.py?package=rt2870-linux-sta

[Henrik S. (henrik-hw0)]

Uploaded new source package for all RT28xx series chipsets. (RT2860+RT2870)
http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/details.py?package=rt28xx-linux-sta

[Henrik S. (henrik-hw0)]

The RT2x00 serial monkey driver does not work on my rt2870 chipset. AFAIK they work on the 25xx series devices and not on the 28xx series.

[Oibaf (oibaf)]

Only want to say that my rt2870 works perfectly with the package created from rt28xx-linux-sta. Thanks! Best would be to set up a PPA, to also provide binary packages.

For some news on rt28xx development at serial monkey:
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4200&sid=2ba605b88f8121125b9ce558fbdf1b6f&start=60

[Henrik S. (henrik-hw0)]

Binary packages are here:
http://launchpad.net/~henrik-hw0/+archive

[Henrik S. (henrik-hw0)]

Forwarding from launchpad user: "justin-conover". He did test the RT2860 driver package on LPIA and found it to be non-operational on that configuration. Message follows:
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Tested on updated jaunty as of today with rt2860 and it isn’t connecting to wpa2.

[13342.790893] ATL1E 0000:03:00.0: ATL1E: eth0 NIC Link is Down
[13354.532424] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 407
[13354.533202] ==>rt_ioctl_siwfreq::SIOCSIWFREQ[cmd=0x8b04] (Channel=1)
[13369.553606] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 2(2) BSS returned, data->length = 242
[13369.713059] ==>rt_ioctl_siwfreq::SIOCSIWFREQ[cmd=0x8b04] (Channel=1)
[13384.728160] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 3(3) BSS returned, data->length = 324
[13384.729024] ==>rt_ioctl_siwfreq::SIOCSIWFREQ[cmd=0x8b04] (Channel=1)
[13399.744725] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 3(3) BSS returned, data->length = 324
[13399.745624] ==>rt_ioctl_siwfreq::SIOCSIWFREQ[cmd=0x8b04] (Channel=1)
[13402.188895] ATL1E 0000:03:00.0: ATL1E: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>

This is on an Asus eee PC 1000
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[Ivo Roghair (ivo-82)]

Succes report: I got the .deb from Henrik Stokseth working on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 (32 bit) with my Sitecom 300N WL-302 usb device (although the package was listed for jaunty -- it builds the module for your specific kernel)

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

This is clearly not going happen for Intrepid.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

This is clearly not going happen for Hardy.