I'm confused... With a virgin install of 13.04 I can ping stuff, but no way can I use a browser. So I downloaded the latest driver from Ralink. I see from the response to http://askubuntu.com/questions/285163/ralink- rt3290-cant-be-installed that the failure of the Ralink driver download is a 'make' failure that comes from the removal of several macro definitions from the 3.8 kernel headers. These macros are __devinit, __devinitdata, and __devexit . The failures all appear in the Ralink file pci_main_dev.c (which is consistent with the errors that I see when I run my make command on the downloaded driver.) There are eleven errors and sixty warnings including the comment "some warnings being treated as errors" Sigh... the errors seem to all be in the pci_main- dev.c file, but the warnings are in a LOT of files within the Ralink download.
Obviously the Ralink drivers need updating to be consistent with the current version of Ubuntu. 1) For all of those with HP computers with the 3290 Wifi device, is it worth putting pressure on HP to kick the folks at Ralink in the nuts to get this moving? For us, the bastards already have our money, and we got an unusable computer. If they had said up front, when you purchase this computer it will not be compatible with future versions of Ubuntu, that would be a different story, but they didn't say that. As far as I know the 3290 device is still in current production for goodness sake. If just I call, that's one voice. If we all call perhaps we can make some traction? 2) in the alternative is it worth dragging the Ralink driver into the open source world, placing it on Git and collaborating on updating it to the latest ubuntu kernels? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-firmware in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1049466 Title: Need support of Ralink RT3290 wifi support Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “linux-firmware” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “linux” source package in Precise: Invalid Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Precise: Fix Released Status in “linux” source package in Quantal: Invalid Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Quantal: Won't Fix Status in “linux” source package in Raring: Fix Released Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Raring: Fix Released Status in “linux” package in Baltix: Opinion Status in “linux” package in Gentoo Linux: New Bug description: RT3290 wifi chip is becoming common on consumer notebooks. Its support starts from 3.6 so support on 12.10 may need lbm-cw. commit a89534edaaa7008992b878680490e9b02a665563 Author: Woody Hung <woody.h...@mediatek.com> Date: Wed Jun 13 15:01:16 2012 +0800 rt2x00 : RT3290 chip support v4 This patch support the new chipset rt3290 wifi implementation in rt2x00. It initailize the related mac, bbp and rf register in startup phase. And this patch modify the efuse read/write method for the different efuse data offset of rt3290. Signed-off-by: Woody Hung <woody.h...@mediatek.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linvi...@tuxdriver.com> To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1049466/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp