On kernel 2.20.6-gentoo-r8 after 'emerge ralink-rt61' On 'ifconfig ra0 up' it throws a kernel panic when rt61sta.dat is correctly configured. To solve the issue I've downloaded serialmonkey driver for rt61 version 1.1.0 beta2 which after running 'make' on the subfolder, copied rt61.ko overwriting the emerged rt61 and ignoring /etc/Wireless/RT61STA/rt61sta.dat and configuring the right choices on /etc/conf.d/net it works flawlessly Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.on AMD64 platform with a Linksys Wxx54 'emerge ralink-rt61' (with the right kernel support) 2.config rt61sta.dat 3.ifconfig ra0 up Actual Results: Get debug info on Console and Kernel Panic Expected Results: Nothing but getting a wifi connection working driver should be updated to serialmonkey 1.1.0 beta2 rt61sta.dat should be deprecated documentation should point to configuring /etc/conf.d/net accordingly
(In reply to comment #0) > driver should be updated to serialmonkey 1.1.0 beta2 Eh, it's already there, so use the other package if this one doesn't work for you... net-wireless/rt61 Latest version available: 1.1.0_beta2 (Or you can even use the ones from Bug 176148).
Another broken thing to kill. Also see Bug 195114. Please, kill this once 2.6.24 kernel is stable. - broken, unneeded. Use rt2x00 in 2.6.24+ kernels.
(In reply to comment #2) > Another broken thing to kill. Also see Bug 195114. > > Please, kill this once 2.6.24 kernel is stable. - broken, unneeded. Use rt2x00 > in 2.6.24+ kernels. > NO Please DON'T!! AFAIK the ralink-rt61 is the only one providing WPA2PSK! This is not possible with the OS-variant. Correct me, if i am wrong! Kind regards, Florian
qeldroma, please retry using the rt61pci driver in a current (2.6.27/28) linux kernel and report back. I will commit the required firmware (net-wireless/rt61-firmware) to the tree soon.
rbu: what needs to be done?
Well, the open source driver in the kernel should be usable (don't have an rt61 stick, only rt73), and the firmware for it is in the tree. Since no one seems to maintain this and there's an open security bug against it, it should be punted.
Note that the package is maintained upstream though: http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/ReleaseNote-RT61STA-v1123.txt I would assume the security issue is fixed there as well, but I'd have to check. But this only makes sense if someone will maintain the package in the future, as it is a third-party kernel module -- and those tend to break every now and then.
# Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org> (3 Jul 2009) # Currently broken, security issue, no maintainer, 3rd party kernel module. # Removal in 60 days, bug 183085 net-wireless/ralink-rt61
removed from tree
