Bug 770474

Summary: wifi fails to work with rt2800pci on kernel-3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: John Slade <redhatbugzilla>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: dadreggors, gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, pmw+redhat, rmiller61k, sgruszka
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Description John Slade 2011-12-26 22:45:59 UTC
Since upgrading to kernel-3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64 my wireless card no longer works.  It all works fine in kernel-3.1.5-6.fc16.x86_64 and earlier.

My card uses the rt2800pci driver and lspci reports it as:

   02:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. Device 539f

I cannot see any error messages when booting kernel 3.1.6.1 that indicates why it is failing to start.

But when booting into 3.1.5.6 (where the wireless works fine) I am getting the following in the logs:

    phy0 -> rt2800pci_mcu_status: Error - MCU request failed, no response from hardware

Comment 1 Bob M 2011-12-27 19:09:13 UTC
Ditto here running an HP laptop. lspci report is 

02:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. Device 5390

Wireless is OK with kernel 3.1.5-6.

Comment 2 David Dreggors 2011-12-29 10:03:31 UTC
I also have the same issue. All worked fine until upgrade, now after boot wifi light is amber, and device is not seen. Pressing wifi button has no effect.

I have to reboot into kernel-3.1.5-6.fc16.x86_64 to get my wifi back.

Device Details (truncated for brevity):
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. Device [1814:5390]
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1636]
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...
...
Kernel driver in use: rt2800pci
	Kernel modules: rt2800pci


If you need further details please ask...

Comment 3 David Dreggors 2011-12-30 05:42:21 UTC
This is a known bug. It is a regression and is being worked on as far as I can tell. The original bug, which is now re-opened is Bug #720594.

Comment 4 David Dreggors 2012-01-03 04:02:18 UTC
Not sure this is simply a regression, the headers for rt2800pci (rt2800pci.h) are in the previous kernels (3.1.5-2 & 3.1.5-6) but not in the newer kernel (3.1.6-1). 

Again... following the other bug (#720594) on this.

Comment 5 Josh Boyer 2012-01-03 13:52:23 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 720594 ***