[SOLVED] Railink 539b works on some distros but not others why?
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Railink 539b works on some distros but not others why?
So my hp laptop has a railink wireless card in it and i have tried a lot of distros but only crunch bang properly detects my wifi card, Why is that? Is there something special crunch bang does at boot that the other distros do not do? Crunch bang even uses and older kernal (3.2.04) than ubuntu and opensuse but they don't detect my card, Why is this?
Under crunch bang i ran lspci and it tells me this below
You should just be able to apt-get install firmware-ralink -- but I would expect Ubuntu's "Jockey" to tell you that non-free drivers were available.
Would it be the same process with debian 7?
I find it so odd that the newest version of ubuntu (13.04) doesn't have the firmware preinstalled but a distro like crunchbang witch is based on debian (wich has never been a distro known for being cutting edge) does. Just.... weird.
I decided to go with ubuntu 12.04 but i still cannot find any ralink-firmware, I checked synaptic for ralink and rt2800pci and it didn't show anything.
THe only thing i found online is a git page with a bunch of directories, I do not know how to use git, I just need a simple binary to install.
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
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I just checked it out in a VM and I can't find the firmware in Ubuntu either. I could comment about Ubuntu and user-friendliness at this point but I'll keep it to myself.
Since the Debian package has no dependencies you could probably download the .deb from http://packages.debian.org/jessie/firmware-ralink and install it. If it works then great and if it doesn't you just have to apt-get remove it.
I just checked it out in a VM and I can't find the firmware in Ubuntu either. I could comment about Ubuntu and user-friendliness at this point but I'll keep it to myself.
Since the Debian package has no dependencies you could probably download the .deb from http://packages.debian.org/jessie/firmware-ralink and install it. If it works then great and if it doesn't you just have to apt-get remove it.
Well i gave that a try and this is what happened.
Code:
skilo@HP-2000-Notebook-PC:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
[sudo] password for skilo:
Selecting previously unselected package firmware-ralink.
(Reading database ... 169014 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking firmware-ralink (from firmware-ralink_0.38_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing firmware-ralink_0.38_all.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite '/lib/firmware/rt3290.bin', which is also in package linux-firmware 1.79.4
Errors were encountered while processing:
firmware-ralink_0.38_all.deb
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
Posts: 7,680
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... and the output of lspci on Ubuntu isn't the same as on crunchbang?
This is starting to sound a lot like a bug with Ubuntu -- I just realised I've been using the same driver on Debian all this time without any issues.
... and the output of lspci on Ubuntu isn't the same as on crunchbang?
This is starting to sound a lot like a bug with Ubuntu -- I just realised I've been using the same driver on Debian all this time without any issues.
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