War Story: HP 2000 Laptop

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 09:33:46PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> A bit more targeted is thus...
> 
> root at hpaq:~# lspci | egrep '(Network|Realtek)'
> 01:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. Device 539b
> 02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTS5229 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
> 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)
> 
> That validates Lennart's speculation, yes, indeed, Ralink Wifi.

commit 2aed691540661e9cf6dac5dd2bd8742b9d68399d
Author: Zero.Lin <Zero.Lin-NuS5LvNUpcJWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org>
Date:   Thu May 10 10:06:31 2012 +0800

    rt2x00:Add RT539b chipset support
    
    Signed-off-by: Zero.Lin <Zero.Lin-NuS5LvNUpcJWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org>
    Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ at public.gmane.org>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c
index 931331d..cad25bf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c
@@ -1192,6 +1192,7 @@ static DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE(rt2800pci_device_table) = {
        { PCI_DEVICE(0x1814, 0x5390) },
        { PCI_DEVICE(0x1814, 0x5392) },
        { PCI_DEVICE(0x1814, 0x539a) },
+       { PCI_DEVICE(0x1814, 0x539b) },
        { PCI_DEVICE(0x1814, 0x539f) },
 #endif
        { 0, }

So you will need kernel version 3.5 or higher to use wifi.

in the case of debian that's tricky.  You would have to install wheezy or
sid and use the experimental branch to get the 3.7 kernel.  Once wheezy is
released, there should be a backports version of a new enough kernel too.

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Len Sorensen
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