Tenda W311U and Debian

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:51:11PM -0400, Giles Orr wrote:
> 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?

Is the hardware revision the same on both?

Do both sticks work with ubuntu and both fail with debian?

In fact is it not working?  Nothing in what you wrote shows anything
wrong.

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