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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619225

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           Summary: rt3070: old firmware file with bad file name
    Classification: openSUSE
           Product: openSUSE 11.3
           Version: RC 2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Kernel
        AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: sbrabec@xxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
          Found By: ---
           Blocker: ---


I have a bulk RT3071 WLAN dongle:
http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/hardware/Ralink_3071/

It does not work in linux out of the box:

Insert, run YaST2 sw_single. System offers kernel-firmware-20100227-4.1 to
install. Nice. (Less nice that is does not recommend replug or reboot
afterwards.)

After replug:

firmware: requesting rt3070.bin
usb 1-4: firmware file rt3070.bin request failed (-2)
rt28xx Initialized fail!

Well, rt3070.bin does not exist (and did never exist).

OK. Let's try ln -s /lib/firmware/rt2870.bin /lib/firmware/rt3070.bin and
replug again:

usb 1-4: firmware: requesting rt3070.bin
usb 1-4: firmware file rt3070.bin is too old; driver requires v17 or later
rt28xx Initialized fail!

OK, let's go to http://www.ralink.com.tw/support.php?s=2 and download "Firmware
RT28XX/RT30XX USB series (RT2870/RT2770/RT3572/RT3070)", unpack, rename
rt2870.bin to rt3070.bin, install to /lib/firmware and replug again.

Now it works! (And in difference to 11.2, scanning works as well and there is
no crash after 30 seconds.)

Proposed fix:

Install the latest firmware.

Either symlink rt2870.bin as rt3070.bin or change kernel to request rt2870.bin
for RT3070.

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