Tenda W311U and Debian

[Giles Orr]

I purchased two Tenda W311U wireless-N USB sticks this past weekend.
I bought the second because they were $15US and the first one "just
worked" (well - I had to blacklist a kernel module) with Ubuntu Karmic
on an older Dell laptop.  Unfortunately I'm having a great deal less
luck with Debian (squeeze, kernel 2.6.32 - in this case on an Atom
netbook, but similar behaviour on an older Compaq Pavilion with
Celeron 1133 and squeeze).

When I plug it in, the stick is recognized:

[   33.784132] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[   33.941924] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=148f, idProduct=3070
[   33.949060] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[   33.956238] usb 1-2: Product: 802.11 n WLAN
[   33.963380] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Ralink
[   33.970477] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 1.0
[   33.979437] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   34.062544] rt2870sta: module is from the staging directory, the
quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[   34.088727] rtusb init --->
[   34.092826]
[   34.092829]
[   34.092831] === pAd = f8c37000, size = 566752 ===
[   34.092834]
[   34.106437] <-- RTMPAllocAdapterBlock, Status=0
[   34.112838] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2870

And the kernel modules are loaded (rt2870sta and a dependency).  I've
blacklisted rt2800usb as that was required under Ubuntu - it would
load that as well as rt2870sta and the stick wouldn't work.  I've also
installed the package "firmware-ralink" which includes
/lib/firmware/rt2870.bin .  I'm getting the same behaviour on the
Celeron laptop, although I haven't tested with firmware on that one.

Any thoughts?

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