boatman9 Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Recently I purchased two new USB wireless adapters. The first one is just as I received it, no firmware update. When connected to a USB port I see the following in the dmesg buffer: usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=148f, idProduct=2070 usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 2-3: Product: 802.11 n WLAN usb 2-3: Manufacturer: Ralink usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel' Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::radio Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::assoc Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::quality udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan1 ================================================== The second adapter originally caused dmesg output as above, but was then used under Windows with the latest Ralink driver and seems to have a firmware update, although that software never told me it was doing a firmware update. Consequently the dmesg output for the second one now shows as below, with the last two lines repeating perpetually until I remove that wireless adapter from the USB port. usb 2-1.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=148f, idProduct=2070 usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 2-1.2: Product: 802.11 n WLAN usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: Ralink usb 2-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel' Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy1::radio Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy1::assoc Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy1::quality rt2800usb 2-1.2:1.0: firmware: requesting rt2870.bin phy1 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware. rt2800usb 2-1.2:1.0: firmware: requesting rt2870.bin phy1 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware. ================================================== What's going on here? How can I make one or both of these wireless adapters work in Mandriva Linux? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedball2 Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 What's going on here? How can I make one or both of these wireless adapters work in Mandriva Linux? Not sure what's going on but I take it both adapters don't work in Mandriva. Have you installed the rt2870-firmware from the Non-Free media? If not, I'd try that :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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