Comment 6 for bug 770232

Dear Wolfgang

Many Thanks- we have progress! In your post #5 here, replacing the file in /lib/firmware has been successful.- thank you!
On my machine:
In kernel 2.6.35-28 the module 'rt2800' is NOT loaded
in kernel 2.6.38-8 the module 'rt2800' IS loaded but the device does not work
in Kernel 2.6.39-020639 the module is loaded but I cannot boot to a graphical environment (I could not install the kernel headers deb in the directory linked in post #4) The LED on the device does not light though so I suspect failure.
in kernel 2.6.38-8 with manually replaced firmware as per post #5 the module 'rt2800' IS loaded and the device DOES work!

I attach the output of the following commands in one file
joshua@Abednego:~$ uname -a > dmesg-2.6.38-8_firmware.txt
joshua@Abednego:~$ lsmod | grep rt2800 >> dmesg-2.6.38-8_firmware.txt
joshua@Abednego:~$ dmesg >> dmesg-2.6.38-8_firmware.txt
I did the same for the other kernels and with the previous firmware as listed above and can provide these files also on request

Many thanks

Joshua Kite