2.4GHz working, but 5GHz not working -- strange dmesg error

[William Park]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:35:33AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 04:10:00PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> > Is this a sign that the card dying?
> 
> Not necesarily.
> 
> Is it the same card as this:
> 
> 07:01.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2800 802.11n PCI
>         Subsystem: Linksys Device 0067
>         Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
>         Memory at fbef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
>         Kernel driver in use: rt2800pci

Yes.

> I remember it took a long time to clue in to needing the package
> 'wireless-regdb' to configure it to know which country I was in and
> hence which frequencies were allowed to be tried.  Once I did install
> that and tell it I was in Canada, then 5GHz just worked.

I'll try it.  Thing is, it used to work.  Because NetworkManager
automatically connects to 2.4GHz if 5GHz fails, I didn't notice this
until recently.
-- 
William
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