rt61 doesn't work in gutsy (worked in feisty)
Bug #159429 reported by
Roger Binns
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #134660: Ralink rt2400 / rt2500 / rt2570 / rt61 / rt73 do not work out of the box in Gutsy/Hardy.
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
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linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Brian Murray |
Bug Description
My Ralink RT61 pci card worked in Feisty. The driver didn't support wpa_supplicant but that doesn't matter as the card has wpa built in and you can configure it using iwpriv.
In Gutsy the driver was changed to one that doesn't support iwpriv, but it doesn't support wpa_supplicant either. I couldn't even get it to connect to a network using no encryption.
This is a really bad situation to end up in. Please fix the driver, revert the driver or provide the old driver again. Failing that at least list somewhere what pci wireless card I can buy at Frys that will work with ubuntu. (I had bought the rt61 in the first place because they have open source drivers).
Roger
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It turns out that the rt61 has several open source drivers (in fact it appears to only have open source drivers). I tried several others including two different ones from SerialMonkey and one from Ralink themselves. I couldn't get any working with WPA.
It is annoying that Gutsy broke something that worked in Feisty. But I'll settle for you just telling me what card to buy in Frys that will just work well with Ubuntu. (I actually need at least two). I'm sure it would be useful to others as well.