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  2. Comment #160

Comment 160 for bug 34902

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Menno (m-tjoelker) wrote :

My system is an HP Pavillion S7720 with buit-in RT73 USB wireless card.
When I installed Feisty, I downloaded and compiled the separate rt73 driver from serialmonkey and blacklisted the modules rt73usb, rt2570 and rt2x00lib that came with Ubuntu, following the advice on the Italian Ubuntu wiki. This has worked fine since. Forced by the presence of some legacy hardware, I am using WEP.

When upgrading to Gutsy, I followed the same procedure, this time using the CVS version of the legacy driver, without really thinking about it. Again, the network connection worked instantaneously, without any trouble.

Afterwards, I thought that it might have been worthwhile to try whether the drivers delivered with Gutsy would work as wel and that is why I came here - to see, that my way of working is probably still the best solution.

By the way, the firmware file (rt73.bin) delivered with the distrubution and located in /lib/firmware/2.6.20-16-generic/ is identical to the one that comes with the driver, so does not need to be replaced.

Menno Tjoelker