Driver for ralink rt73 chipset missing

[Robert Nasiadek]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop

There is no driver for rt73 chipset-based cards in Dapper. This makes it very difficult and inconvenient to install such cards.
There are many new cards that use this chipset, and as Dapper is a long-term version, it would be good to support them.
Driver is available from ralink website and is GPLed.

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

Maybe the kernel source is a more appropriate place for this bug report ...

[niknah (hankin0)]

The driver is there in 6.10, thanks.

But I couldn't scan the network with it.

It's missing a patch in wpa_supplicant to use -Dralink

Related bug...
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/58117

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

You say it's there now? I'm changing it to Fix Released...

[wolfger (wolfger)]

Last comment says status will be changed to Fix Released, but it's still sitting at Incomplete. Can somebody say why?

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

Sorry, I'll change it back.