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  1. Bug #762987
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 762987

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Wolfgang Kufner (wolfgangkufner) wrote : Re: [Bug 762987] Re: RT2870 WLAN Stick (D-Link DWA 140) not working. firmware does not support detected chipset

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=fefecc6989b4b24276797270c0e229c07be02ad3
>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
(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.