[clue-tech] For Installfest Laptop does not go wireless

[novemberico]

I've experienced situations where the driver was there, but the firmware
wasn't Depending on how the driver was written I've received an interface
but was not able to modify it.
True, the interface is there, but it is obviously borked (see MAC address
and txqueuelen) No amount of abstraction with any of that
neo-letmeconfigurethatforyou-garbage will fix it.

Perhaps we can see a `uname -r` and a `dmesg` if you are positive that the
driver is in a working state and you have the firmware? Otherwise I am sure
that with the ralink-firmware and wireless-tools packages it works.

On 17 January 2011 20:29, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:

> novemberico wrote:
> > Ralink can be hit or miss. My guess is you're missing the
> firmware/drivers,
> > which isn't surprising seeing as this driver is in staging. Be aware you
> may
> > have to upgrade your kernel to use it. See this page, it may help you:
> > http://wiki.debian.org/rt2870sta
>
> That seems unlikely to me, since he has an interface.  My guess is that it
> isn't configured to do
> the right thing.  That gets done through a network manager app, wicd,
> wpa-supplicant, etc.  But it
> has to be installed and run.
>
> Dave
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