[Solved] Wireless card unusable with errors at boot

MetaMan · 2011-10-06 13:02:40

Ever since I've installed updates Wednesday, my wireless won't work. It gives these errors through dmesg:

[   14.823359] phy0 -> rt2800_load_firmware: Error - PBF system register not ready.
[   15.650025] phy0 -> rt2800_load_firmware: Error - PBF system register not ready.
[   16.316687] phy0 -> rt2800_load_firmware: Error - PBF system register not ready.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Last edited by MetaMan (2011-10-14 15:37:24)

the sad clown · 2011-10-06 13:17:59

Try this (from a bug report with similar issues):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … comments/8

Gusar · 2011-10-06 13:43:31

the sad clown wrote:

Try this (from a bug report with similar issues):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … comments/8

That definitely won't work. The staging driver is gone, so what one must use is exactly the driver that link says to blacklist.

the sad clown · 2011-10-06 14:27:49

Hmm...I guess you know better than I would. However it worked for the fellow who posted it, and he seemed to have had a similar problem. Here is the whole bug report if it will be of any help:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … ug/673440/

Last edited by the sad clown (2011-10-06 14:29:57)

Gusar · 2011-10-06 14:47:09

the sad clown wrote:

However it worked for the fellow who posted it

Yes, because he used an old kernel (2.6.37) that has the staging driver. The staging driver is gone starting with kernel 3.0

Last edited by Gusar (2011-10-06 14:47:46)

MetaMan · 2011-10-06 15:33:40

One thing of note is that one of the major packages that was updated was linux, which is now to 3.0.6.

bangkok_manouel · 2011-10-06 17:19:56

does downgrading to 3.0.4 solve the issue so we could be sure it's kernel related (even if it's extremely likely) ?

edit: please let us know what is your chipset precisely

Last edited by bangkok_manouel (2011-10-06 17:32:25)

MetaMan · 2011-10-06 21:30:30

Does this help?

05:07.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2800 802.11n PCI
        Subsystem: Linksys Device 0065
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
        Memory at d3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: rt2800pci
        Kernel modules: rt2800pci

bangkok_manouel · 2011-10-07 00:54:47

yes thank you. did you try to downgrade your kernel ?

MetaMan · 2011-10-07 01:07:59

Just did. (A.R.M ) It didn't help.

Last edited by MetaMan (2011-10-07 01:09:21)

bangkok_manouel · 2011-10-07 01:11:00

ah. interesting. can you check pacman log and post all packages you upgraded before you system got broken ?

MetaMan · 2011-10-07 01:17:45

bangkok_manouel wrote:

ah. interesting. can you check pacman log and post all packages you upgraded before you system got broken ?

http://pastebin.com/4P17hXZ5

If you're wondering, one of the first things I tried was reinstalling the kernel.

Last edited by MetaMan (2011-10-07 14:31:50)

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