On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 07:36:06AM -0400, bunk3m wrote: > I've been trying for some time to get this usb wifi adapter running on > an older Lombard Powerbook (G3 PPC). > > I have followed the directions on debian.org to install the non-free > firmware from Ralink (v0.28), wicd, wireless-tools and > wireless-supplicant. [...] > FATAL: Module rt2870sta not found.
The rt2870 staging driver is x86-dependent (which is noted at [1]) and consequently not available in linux-image packages for powerpc. > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0b05:1784 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. 802.11n Network > Adapter [...] > I also searched for the rt3070sta module but that is not found either. This was merged with the rt2870 staging driver at Linux 2.6.32. > ifup and ifconfig show nothing. I've put ra0 in the wicd preferences > but it says that it can't find any wireless connection. [...] > Do I need to compile the driver from the Ralink disc or ralink site? Recognition of your device was added to the in-tree rt2800usb driver at Linux 2.6.35 [2], which is about the same time the driver became truly functional (ref. Debian bug #601416, message #15). This is available for powerpc. > I'm running 2.6.32-5-powerpc if that helps. I was about to suggest use of a backported linux-image package (providing Linux 2.6.38) from squeeze-backports, but this currently appears to be unavailable for powerpc. You could try taking linux-image-2.6.38-2-powerpc (and linux-base) from the testing suite as an alternative. Geoff [1] http://wiki.debian.org/rt2870sta [2] http://git.kernel.org/linus/fc3f14873d38a5c8a280ff4b8c8abde0244fb79b -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110521025300.ge3...@chmmr.gsimmons.org
