Comment 63 for bug 541620

I have an Acer Revo R1600 with one of these wireless devices. Out of the box, Lucid's driver didn't work. To fix it, I created an empty file in as described in #12 and elsewhere. It works for me.

I don't have the machine at hand to check exactly what I did, but I do have the output of dmesg. I'll quote some bits.

[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.32-24-generic (buildd@yellow) (gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ) #38-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jul 5 09:20:59 UTC 2010 (Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.38-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5)

I think that this shows I'm running the up to date kernel. It is a 64-bit one. Netbooks will have to run 32-bit ones but that should not be important.

[ 15.865117] rt3090sta: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.

[ 16.257484] Read file "/etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/RT2860STA.dat" failed(errCode=0)!
[ 16.257505] 1. Phy Mode = 0
[ 16.257509] 2. Phy Mode = 0
[ 16.257514] NVM is Efuse and its size =2d[2d0-2fc]
[ 16.258830] 3. Phy Mode = 0
[ 16.281866] RTMPSetPhyMode: channel is out of range, use first channel=1
[ 16.281873] MCS Set = 00 00 00 00 00
[ 16.292025] <==== rt28xx_init, Status=0
[ 16.292099] 0x1300 = 00073200
[ 16.292121] AUX_CTRL = 0x c02
[ 16.292129] Read AUX_CTRL = 0xc02
[ 16.292134] Write AUX_CTRL = 0x1c02
[ 16.292140] OSC_CTRL = 0x3ff11
[ 16.344049] ====> rt30xx Read PowerLevelMode = 0x3.
[ 16.344056] ====> rt30xx F Write 0x83 Command = 0x3.