RT73 Wifi problems with Slack 12

symatic · 03-18-2008, 04:01 PM

I have been messing around with it myself. It is a dhcp problem. You could set it up statically, it works quite well so far. I haven't noticed any problems. Just thought I would update that. ndiswrapper I find quite buggy.

deathwing64 · 04-10-2011, 10:27 PM

Dear Alien Bob,

I got the same problem "phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware". It appears that for kernel which is older than 2.6.33, compat-wireless will use "compat_firmware" class instead of "firmware" class in order to load the firmware. You should add a new entry to /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default
SUBSYSTEM=="compat_firmware", ACTION=="add", RUN+="firmware.sh"
Then reload your udev rules with
udevcontrol reload_rules
Finally try to load the compat-wireless modules again.