Bug 232614

Summary:	Please add rt61 firmware (net-wireless/ralink-rt61)
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Junho Cha <s20blast>
Component:	LiveCD/DVD/USB	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	bugzie
Priority:	High
Version:	2008.0
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Junho Cha 2008-07-22 02:59:19 UTC

there is an error message when i try
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

i don't remember the exact message. sorry.

Reproducible: Always




can fix this by downloading rt61 driver from ralink website
and copy bin files into /lib/firmware

Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-07-22 03:11:46 UTC

Is the firmware freely redistributable?

Comment 2 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-07-22 03:13:36 UTC

Also, are they in the tree?

Comment 3 Johannes Jeske 2008-07-22 19:09:49 UTC

Yeah, it's in the tree:

net-wireless/ralink-rt61

Comment 4 Piotr Szymaniak 2008-08-12 06:57:09 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Yeah, it's in the tree:
> 
> net-wireless/ralink-rt61

So why this is still open?

Comment 5 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-08-12 14:22:52 UTC

Uhh, because this request came after the 2008.0 release?