Comment 26 for bug 362875

I notice a few things:

(1) The error messages reported by various people are not all exactly the same. Perhaps they are having different problmes related to the same firmware?

(2) I posted problems I had with one of these Ralink-based adapters years ago. I used that same adapter on an up-to-date Debian machine recently, and it has worked flawlessly under moderate use with Debian's separate "firmware-ralink" package. I have yet to try it again on Ubuntu.

(3) I understand that this driver is built in part from an open-source driver (part of the Linux kernel; should be mostly standard across Ubuntu and Debian), and in part from binary firmware images provided freely by Ralink. Maybe Ubuntu is using an old or incorrect version of the firmware? I will try to compare more sometime.

For information on the applicable Linux/Ralink project:
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Also, Wolfgang Kufner, why did you immediately change the "affects" away from rt2x00 a few months back? Did you have a particular reason to believe that it's not a problem with the rt2x00 driver? Maybe you knew that this is a problem with the firmware, not with the open-source rt2x00 code?