[Mageia-dev] RaLink 3062 WiFi card

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, Michał Walenciak wrote:

> I've two PCs with the same RaLink 3062 WiFi card.
> Those cards are currently (since kernel 2.6.38 or 37) supported by kernel
> (modules marked as stable).
>
> The problem is that on one of the computers I've debian testing with 2.6.39
> kernel and it automatically loads proper modules and WiFi card works, and on
> Mageia PC nothing happens.
>
> I tried both 2.6.38 and 3.0.0 kernels (on Mageia) and:
> * no module is loaded automatically
> * even if I load proper module manually, nothing happens (module seems to be
> somehow not related to proper device)

Check dmesg for info, especially an error msg about a firmware file. You 
may need one of the following packages from the nonfree section:
rt2860-firmware
rt2870-firmware
rt3090-firmware
rt61-firmware
rt73-firmware
kernel-firmware-extra (for rt3070.bin and rt3071.bin)


     Christiaan