rt73usb fails should use open source alternative

[peter]

The wireless stick dwl-g122 c1 does not work with fiesty

If you follow this wiki http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/RalinkRT73 then the dwl-g122 H/W ver C1 F/W ver 3.00 will work using WPA on herd5

However you must not plug the stick in until you have completed the wiki instructions, if you do feisty becomes virtually unusable because the mouse pointer cannot be controlled.

When you plug the stick in it works straight away but if you then reboot feisty hangs half way through the boot progress bar. To stop this you must also blacklist rt2570. Then the wireless stick is rock solid.

Suggest you drop ralink drivers and move to serial monkey open drivers for rt73 chip.

ProblemType: Bug
Date: Sun Mar 4 14:09:06 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux peter-desktop 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Cristian Aravena Romero (caravena)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description doesn't yet have enough information.

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[peter (peter-blackburnsonline)]

I am sorry to have bothered you, if this is the sort of answer that I get to a well described problem with a working alternative, then I have no respect for this bug procedure.

From now on anything I find I shall write down for MY future reference and leave it at that.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Hi Peter,

The debugging information is not necessary since this is a wish list bug.

Thanks
chuck

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

We had rt2x00 until we switched to 2.6.20 AFAIK, and it never worked from what I've heard. Atleast rt61pci didn't work here. rt2[45]00 have always been legacy from what I know. Also, ralinks drivers are GPL'd aswell. Where's the real problem with one broken driver to a little less broken driver? :-)

[Kyle McMartin (kyle)]

Hi Peter,

Please rest assured, the input you provided is valuable to us. If it were possible to delete comments from launchpad at the present time, I would. Unfortunately, the number of bugs we have means sometimes the community members doing bug triage post stock comments asking for more information without more than a cursory glance at the bug. If you have any further concerns or questions, feel free to bring them up to the kernel team mailing list (<email address hidden>) or directly to me (<email address hidden>.) And please, keep reporting bugs, every bit helps us produce a better distribution.

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  Kyle (speaking on behalf of the Ubuntu Kernel Team)

[Matheus Pacheco de Andrade (matheusp-andrade-deactivatedaccount)]

It shouldn't be considered a wish, since it reports some piece of hardware not working properly.
I confirm that in latest kernel revision (2.6.20-14) the rt73 piece of wireless adapter only works when compiling the rt2x00 project's rt73 cvs driver.
It's funny, since in 2.6.20-13 it worked "out of the box" after the update - maybe it was using the driver I compiled for 2.6.20-12?

[Robert Smart (bob-smart)]

I'd like to confirm that, as shipped feisty locks up when I plug in my DWL-G122 rev C1. With the serial monkey driver installed as described at the Italian site, it works correctly, including with WPA.

[Steven Wagner (stevenwagner)]

I added a quick blurp here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT73

The driver works fine if you simply download the file and follow the readme.
Driver here: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz

I expect that this will get merged into the kernel soon. Since a lot of people need this though, perhaps this could be added as a custom patch if it doesn't get merged into the linus kernel by the time gutsy roles out.

[Matheus Pacheco de Andrade (matheusp-andrade-deactivatedaccount)]

Remembering you that this serialmonkey driver doesnt work with
network-manager.

On 7/5/07, Steven Wagner <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I added a quick blurp here:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT73
>
> The driver works fine if you simply download the file and follow the
> readme.
> Driver here: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz
>
> I expect that this will get merged into the kernel soon. Since a lot of
> people need this though, perhaps this could be added as a custom patch
> if it doesn't get merged into the linus kernel by the time gutsy roles
> out.
>
> --
> rt73usb fails should use open source alternative
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89665
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Kyle M Weller (kylew)]

the rt73 drivers do not work out of the box for gutsy beta as well, this is a serious issue that ive always had since feisty beta when I first tried out ubuntu, the serialmonkey drivers work only for WEP on the belkin usb dongle:
 Bus 004 Device 003: ID 050d:705a Belkin Components

It seems whoever wrote the driver forgot to put in the correct USB ID's here is the fixed driver
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Flinville%2Fwireless-dev.git&a=search&h=rt2x00&st=commit&s=rt73

[Id2ndR (id2ndr)]

See bug #139070 too.

[Jerzy Jalocha N (jjalocha)]

Will mark this as duplicate of Bug #134660, since it has higher priority. Hopefully we get this supported in Hardy!

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