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[James Dafoe <1049466@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Found another possible workaround if you want to use vendor's
proprietary drivers. Someone over at archlinux created a patch for
mediatek's driver: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rt3290sta-
dkms/?setlang=ru

Original Driver:           http://www.mediatek.com/_en/07_downloads/01-1_windowsDetail.php?sn=5033
Patch: 		               https://www.dropbox.com/s/v0kaibq0f4to0k2/rt3290sta.patch

I wrapped it up into DKMS so it can easily get rebuilt on kernel
upgrades. Download and untar into /usr/src and then run:

dkms install -m rt3290sta -v 2.6.0.0
modprobe rt3290sta

This will:
1 - Add it to DKMS tree
2 - Build the rt3290sta driver with the patch
2 - Install it to the kernel driver tree
3 - Blacklist original kernel drivers rt2x00pci & rt2800pci from loading by creating /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ralink.conf

To remove:
dkms remove t3290sta/2.6.0.0 -all

** Attachment added: "rt3290sta-2.6.0.0.dkms.tar.gz"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1049466/+attachment/3886782/+files/rt3290sta-2.6.0.0.dkms.tar.gz

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Title:
  Need support of Ralink RT3290 wifi support

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
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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