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I'm confused... With a virgin install of 13.04 I can ping stuff, but no
way can I use a browser.  So I downloaded the latest driver from Ralink.
I see from the response to http://askubuntu.com/questions/285163/ralink-
rt3290-cant-be-installed that the failure of the Ralink driver download
is a 'make' failure that comes from the removal of several macro
definitions from the 3.8 kernel headers. These macros are __devinit,
__devinitdata, and __devexit . The failures all appear in the Ralink
file pci_main_dev.c  (which is consistent with the errors that I see
when I run my make command on the downloaded driver.)  There are eleven
errors and sixty warnings including the comment "some warnings being
treated as errors"  Sigh...  the errors seem to all be in the pci_main-
dev.c file, but the warnings are in a LOT of files within the Ralink
download.

Obviously the Ralink drivers need updating to be consistent with the
current version of Ubuntu.

1) For all of those with HP computers with the 3290 Wifi device, is it
worth putting pressure on HP to kick the folks at Ralink in the nuts to
get this moving?   For us, the bastards already have our money, and we
got an unusable computer.  If they had said up front, when you purchase
this computer it will not be compatible with future versions of Ubuntu,
that would be a different story, but they didn't say that.  As far as I
know the 3290 device is still in current production for goodness sake.
If just I call, that's one voice.  If we all call perhaps we can make
some traction?

2) in the alternative is it worth dragging the Ralink driver into the
open source world, placing it on Git and collaborating on updating it to
the latest ubuntu kernels?

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Title:
  Need support of Ralink RT3290 wifi support

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux-firmware” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux” source package in Precise:
  Invalid
Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux” source package in Quantal:
  Invalid
Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Quantal:
  Won't Fix
Status in “linux” source package in Raring:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Raring:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux” package in Baltix:
  Opinion
Status in “linux” package in Gentoo Linux:
  New

Bug description:
  RT3290 wifi chip is becoming common on consumer notebooks. Its support
  starts from 3.6 so support on 12.10 may need lbm-cw.

  commit a89534edaaa7008992b878680490e9b02a665563
  Author: Woody Hung <Woody.Hung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Wed Jun 13 15:01:16 2012 +0800

      rt2x00 : RT3290 chip support v4
      
      This patch support the new chipset rt3290 wifi implementation in rt2x00.
      It initailize the related mac, bbp and rf register in startup phase.
      And this patch modify the efuse read/write method for the different efuse data offset of rt3290.
      
      Signed-off-by: Woody Hung <Woody.Hung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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