Great. So this bug is already fixed in oneiric. With the possible
exception of the interference issue at the moment - you say you have
to blacklist the rt2870sta. I looked up the staging directory in the
new kernel 3.0 (what would have been 2.6.40 if Linus hadn't gone and
renamed it :-) ). What I found was that there are no more Ralink
staging drivers in 3.0 since this commit:
This will automatically take care of any interference issue in oneiric
once it switches to 3.0.
What remains to be considered is how to fix this for everyone in natty
(and possibly users of linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless in
maverick and lucid). From what I see a SRU (stable release update)
should be considered for linux-firmware, replacing the rt2870bin (md5:
e4b60f5bb4980a26cbac32be690451d6) with the /lib/firmware/rt2870.bin
(md5: 36c944c3138125605d28c0a3a1338be9) from linux-firmware 1.53 which
is already in oneiric.
Great. So this bug is already fixed in oneiric. With the possible
exception of the interference issue at the moment - you say you have
to blacklist the rt2870sta. I looked up the staging directory in the
new kernel 3.0 (what would have been 2.6.40 if Linus hadn't gone and
renamed it :-) ). What I found was that there are no more Ralink
staging drivers in 3.0 since this commit:
http:// git.kernel. org/?p= linux/kernel/ git/torvalds/ linux-2. 6.git;a= commit; h=fefecc6989b4b 24276797270c0e2 29c07be02ad3
>staging: rt2860sta and rt2870sta: Remove drivers replaced in net/wireless
>
>The staging driver rt2860sta is replaced by mainline driver rt2800pci, and
>rt2870sta is replaced by rt2800usb. As a result, the staging drivers are
>deleted.
This will automatically take care of any interference issue in oneiric
once it switches to 3.0.
What remains to be considered is how to fix this for everyone in natty -modules- compat- wireless in 6cbac32be690451 d6) with the /lib/firmware/ rt2870. bin 05d28c0a3a1338b e9) from linux-firmware 1.53 which
(and possibly users of linux-backports
maverick and lucid). From what I see a SRU (stable release update)
should be considered for linux-firmware, replacing the rt2870bin (md5:
e4b60f5bb4980a2
(md5: 36c944c31381256
is already in oneiric.