Ralink WLAN card unable to find or connect to WLANs

[fhd]

I've bought a Novatech x10 Netbook. It works quite well with Ubuntu Netbook Edition, but although the WLAN card seems to be recognised, it does not list any WLANs when scanning (although there are several ones where I live) and it is unable to connect to my own WLAN if I enter the SSID manually.

I've found a few threads on the topic:

• RT2870/RT3070 Ralink Driver Bug
• Install linux drivers for ralink rt2870

But in both cases, the card seems to work, though buggy. In my case however, it doesn't work at all.

What can I do to make WLAN work?

Here is what lsusb has to say:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter

Here is the output from iwlist scan:

lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0     No scan results

And here is modinfo rt2870sta (That seems to be the correct driver):

filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.35-24-generic/kernel/drivers/staging/rt2870/rt2870sta.ko
version:        2.1.0.0
license:        GPL
description:    RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Lan Linux Driver
author:         Paul Lin <paul_lin@ralinktech.com>
firmware:       rt3071.bin
firmware:       rt3070.bin
firmware:       rt2870.bin
srcversion:     93E93E3E336F412601AF0FA
alias:          usb:v0411p015Dd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
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depends:        crc-ccitt
staging:        Y
vermagic:       2.6.35-24-generic SMP mod_unload modversions 
parm:           mac:rt28xx: wireless mac addr (charp)

[chili555]

Does the kernel have any interesting messages to report?

dmesg | grep -i rt2

rt2870sta (That seems to be the correct driver):

Correct:

ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter

$ modinfo rt2870sta | grep 3070
description:    RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Lan Linux Driver
firmware:       rt3070.bin
alias:          usb:v07B8p3070d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias:          usb:v148Fp3070d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*

[fhd]

Does the kernel have any interesting messages to report?

dmesg | grep -i rt2

Here's what it says:

[   17.792954] rt2870sta: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[   18.153075] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2870
[   20.210687] <==== rt28xx_init, Status=0
[   21.051794] <==== rt28xx_init, Status=0

However, I've found a way to make it work. Wireless is disabled per default on the Novatech x10, so I enable it with Fn+F2 each time I'm trying to go online. If I restart network-manager after activating the device, everything works just fine! It also works fine if I press the combination early enough during startup, but sadly there is no way to tell the BIOS to activate it automatically.

I've done some more searching on the topic and it seems to be this bug.