My WUSB54G v4 from ebay uses the rt2500 chipset and driver and doesn't connect to WPA in Feisty; I get a pop-up saying "requires security capabilities unsupported by your hardware". The more recent (still in stores) WUSB54GC also uses rt2500.
It's so unfortunate. rt2500 is completely free software and highly recommended for Linux (both from the FSF, ubuntu wiki, and Ralink's home page: http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html ) and there's still this monumental problem with it and network-manager-gnome. I can even get the Intel wireless cards and their firmware to work out of the box in Feisty easily but not rt2500. Maybe I"m just seeing a problem where it doesn't exist but I wonder why so much time was spent with making binary blobs easy to use in Feisty and yet free hardware isn't supported. Of course I'm under no illusions it can be fixed easily, as Feisty will be frozen in a few days, but just a comment. As another workaround, I've heard on the Ubuntu forums that some other wireless managers in Synaptic can deal with it, but still network- manager-gnome is the default and supposed to be the big draw in Feisty...there's a whole thread devoted to this issue in the Feisty Fawn Discussion forum as well, with people who's wireless worked pre-Feisty and now doesn't due to network-manager/the driver not supporting the extensions talked about in the link norberto posted. -- rt2500 in feisty: problem & solution https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/78037 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
