Comment 79 for bug 446889

I am too afraid of breaking my computer, but which would we install to test? And is there a way to add it to repositories instead of downloading the file?

I have just upgraded to Lucid and dmesg shows the same as before for the "1737:0077 Linksys" device:

[ 863.290142] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[ 863.458091] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 863.624357] phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
[ 863.626394] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy1::radio
[ 863.626495] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy1::assoc
[ 863.626542] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy1::quality
[ 863.626912] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2800usb
[ 863.682964] rt2870sta: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 863.694399] rtusb init --->
[ 863.694508] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2870
[ 863.740379] udev: renamed network interface wlan1 to wlan2
[ 863.746992] rt2800usb 2-1:1.0: firmware: requesting rt2870.bin
[ 864.381936] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan2: link is not ready