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  1. Bug #210725
  2. Comment #172

Comment 172 for bug 210725

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Alex Krastelev (alex-netrc) wrote :

Tested a clean "vanilla" install of Jaunty Alpha 3 on eee 901 with all automatic updates installed as of today.
(kernel "2.6.28-6-generic #16-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 26 20:16:00 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux"). I did not install any extra drivers.

- The driver is present and works just fine on eee 901

- The driver complains in kernel messages about missing RT2860STA.dat, but works just fine without this file.
# dmesg | grep 2860
...
[ 30.597458] --> Error 2 opening /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/RT2860STA.dat
I do not even have /etc/Wireless folder and wireless works fine.

- For some reason the ra0 interface was NOT automatically seen by gnome network manager at first.
"Wireless" tab in System-->Preferences-->Network connections was empty.
Only after manual "sudo modprobe rt2860sta" and "iwlist ra0 scanning" the gnome-network-manager recognized it (?).
After that, wireless works in Gnome after every reboot (no need for modprobe or iwlist).