Wireless USB Belkin N+ F5D8055 not supported (rt2870 based chipset)

[Daniele Napolitano]

In accord to linux-port branch (https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/karmic/linux-ports/karmic) this patch fix the issue.

rt2870.h is located in staging drivers section.

--- rt2870.h 2009-08-12 17:37:16.338928279 +0200
+++ rt2870_patched.h 2009-08-12 17:38:39.406930335 +0200
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@
  {USB_DEVICE(0x14B2,0x3C07)}, /* AL */ \
  {USB_DEVICE(0x14B2,0x3C12)}, /* AL */ \
  {USB_DEVICE(0x050D,0x8053)}, /* Belkin */ \
+ {USB_DEVICE(0x050D,0x825a)}, /* Belkin */ \
  {USB_DEVICE(0x14B2,0x3C23)}, /* Airlink */ \
  {USB_DEVICE(0x14B2,0x3C27)}, /* Airlink */ \
  {USB_DEVICE(0x07AA,0x002F)}, /* Corega */ \

An update of this USB IDs list in accord to official kernel branch is very appreciated:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/staging/rt2870/rt2870.h;h=2b8872b2fd9dcf116522cd90efe206e9f9ae51ff;hb=HEAD

I've contacted Greg Kroah-Hartman for including this patch in the main kernel tree.

[Daniele Napolitano (dnax88)]

Patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree (and signed by Greg Kroah-Hartman).

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/staging/staging-rt2870-new-usb-id-for-belkin-n-f5d8055.patch

[Aldo Latino (aldolat)]

Will the fix available in Lucid or can we already apply it in Karmic?