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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Help with installing software (Keith Edmunds)
2. Re: Help with installing software (Keith Edmunds)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 17:39:58 +0000
From: Keith Edmunds <kae@midnighthax.com>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [bristol] Help with installing software
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:34:53 +0000 (GMT), lug@assursys.co.uk said:

> I can't really provide a 'cookbook recipe' for Ubuntu

On a Debian system (for our purposes today, the same as Ubuntu):

$ apt-cache search ralink
firmware-ralink - Binary firmware for Ralink wireless cards

So now you need to try something like:

$ sudo apt-get install firmware-ralink

...and see how you get on.
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"Laughter is the best medicine, though it tends not to work in the case
of impotence" - Jo Brand




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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 17:42:59 +0000
From: Keith Edmunds <kae@midnighthax.com>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [bristol] Help with installing software
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On Sat, 21 Nov 2015 17:39:58 +0000, kae@midnighthax.com said:

> $ apt-cache search ralink
> firmware-ralink - Binary firmware for Ralink wireless cards

A bit more info (should have included this earlier, sorry):

$ aptitude show firmware-ralink
[...]
Description: Binary firmware for Ralink wireless cards
This package contains the binary firmware for wireless network cards with
the Ralink RT2501 [Turbo], RT2600, RT5201 [Turbo], RT5600, RT5201USB,
RT2800P[D], RT2700P[D], RT2700E[D], RT2800E[D], RT2800U[D] or RT3000E[D]
chipsets or RT3070/RT3071/RT3072 chips, supported by the rt61/rt61pci,
rt73/rt73usb, rt2860sta, rt2870sta/rt2870, rt3070sta or rt3090sta drivers.

Contents:
* Ralink RT2561 (RT2501/RT5201 chipset) firmware, version 1.2
(rt2561.bin)
* Ralink RT2561S (RT2501 Turbo/RT5201 Turbo chipset) firmware, version
1.2 (rt2561s.bin)
* Ralink RT2661 (RT2600/RT5600 chipset) firmware, version 1.2
(rt2661.bin)
* Ralink RT2760/RT2790/RT2860/RT2890/RT3090
(RT2700P[D]/RT2700E[D]/RT2800P[D]/RT2800E[D]/RT3000E[D] chipset) firmware,
version 34 (rt2860.bin, rt3090.bin)
* Ralink RT2870/RT3070/RT3071/RT3072 (RT2800U[D] chipset) firmware,
version 29 (rt2870.bin, rt3070.bin)
* Ralink RT3071/RT3072 firmware, version 29 (rt3071.bin)
* Ralink RT3290 firmware, version 1 (rt3290.bin)
* Ralink RT2571W/RT2671 (RT2501USB/RT5201USB chipset) firmware, version
1.8 (rt73.bin) Homepage:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
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