OpenSuse 11.4 Wireless RaLink RT2760 installation problem

My PCI card vendor is RaLink RT2760 and the product ID is 1814:0701. When I issue the command dmesg | less I find several messages stating “rt2860 0000:02:09.0: firmware file rt2860.bin request failed (-2) ERROR! NICLoadFirmware failed, Status=0x00000001]”. I do not understand what this error message is trying to tell me or how I should go about correcting it. If anyone has any insight on how to resolve my wireless issues I would appreciate any assistance you can offer.

Thanks

On 06/23/2011 11:06 PM, gjohnson2221 wrote:
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> My PCI card vendor is RaLink RT2760 and the product ID is 1814:0701.
> When I issue the command dmesg | less I find several messages stating
> “rt2860 0000:02:09.0: firmware file rt2860.bin request failed (-2)
> ERROR! NICLoadFirmware failed, Status=0x00000001]”. I do not understand
> what this error message is trying to tell me or how I should go about
> correcting it. If anyone has any insight on how to resolve my wireless
> issues I would appreciate any assistance you can offer.

The message is telling you that you have not installed the firmware, and that
you need to have a file named rt2860.bin in /lib/firmware.

With a network connection (wired), issue the command


sudo zypper install kernel-firmware

That will install the file you need.