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[Sachin Thomas <sachinthomaspj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is there any hope of getting the rt2x00pci drivers to work properly on
Ubuntu x64? This is what I get on 13.04 with kernel 3.8.0-33-generic

With Ralink driver and patch by bmlandis2010:

 Ralink STA  ESSID:"DLink"  Nickname:"RT3290STA"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.412 GHz  Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
          Bit Rate=39 Mb/s   
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality=89/100  Signal level:-76 dBm  Noise level:-91 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

With rt2x00pci driver:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"DLink"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
          Bit Rate=19.5 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on
          Link Quality=30/70  Signal level=-80 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:41  Invalid misc:1613   Missed beacon:0

Even though the signal levels are nearly equal (-76 dBm and -80 dBm)
link quality with rt2x00pci is too low (30/70) when compared to Ralink
driver (89/100). There are too many Tx excessive retries and Invalid
misc values.

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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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