FS#19519 - kernel26-2.6.34 in testing requires firmware for rt2860sta driver

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by John (CapnJB) - Wednesday, 19 May 2010, 02:43 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Thursday, 20 May 2010, 11:57 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
Yesterday I tried to test out the 2.6.34 kernel from testing on my Asus EeePC 901. When I booted it up, I couldn't connect to wireless. Upon investigating, I discovered that there were some changes to the rt2860 staging driver which moved the firmware out of the main kernel git repository. Here's the commit that removed the firmware:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.34.y.git;a=commit;h=c22202faade08b6b45f14fd86bfb57f79d73464c

There is a git repository on kernel.org that has the required firmware (http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=summary), but I'm under the impression that they don't want to merge this firmware to the main kernel branch (so it won't be in kernel26-firmware-2.6.34). So I'm guessing there will have to be either a new package for this firmware or a package will have to be modified to include it. Either way, I'm don't think there's any changes upstream that will fix this.

Additional info:
* package version(s): kernel26-2.6.34
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
On a laptop using the rt2860sta driver:
Upgrade to kernel26-2.6.34 in testing
Try to bring up your wireless device
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Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Thursday, 20 May 2010, 11:57 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  install linux-firmware from [testing]
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Wednesday, 19 May 2010, 08:55 GMT
Can you try replacing kernel26-firmware with the package mentioned at http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-May/013347.html and see if that solves it?
Comment by John (CapnJB) - Thursday, 20 May 2010, 02:45 GMT
That package does solve it, thanks for pointing it out.
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Thursday, 20 May 2010, 11:22 GMT
linux-firmware is now in [testing] and the -git package mentioned in the mailing list message above should be replaced by that.

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