0006036: Install ralink firmware by default

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0006036	Kali Linux	General Bug	public	2020-01-29 17:06	2020-02-13 00:32

Reporter	Mister_X	Assigned To	rhertzog
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	2020.1
Fixed in Version	2020.2

Summary	0006036: Install ralink firmware by default
Description	Plugging a wireless card with ralink chipset will create the interface, but tools such as airodump-ng will fail and return the following, which often indicates a missing firmware or failure to load it kali@kali:~$ sudo airodump-ng wlan0mon ioctl(SIOCSIFFLAGS) failed: No such file or directory Failed initializing wireless card(s): wlan0mon Looking into dmesg, the following can be found: [14753.192564] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2870.bin' [14753.195019] rt2800usb 1-2:1.0: firmware: failed to load rt2870.bin (-2) The solution is to install the firmware-ralink package.
Steps To Reproduce	Plug a ralink card Put in monitor mode: sudo airmon-ng start wlan0 Start packet capture: sudo airodump-ng wlan0mon
Additional Information	firmware-atheros is missing as well. There are a few more firmware packages for wireless devices, we want to make sure they get installed as well.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2020-01-29 17:06	Mister_X	New Issue
2020-01-30 11:12	rhertzog	Assigned To	=> rhertzog
2020-01-30 11:12	rhertzog	Status	new => resolved
2020-01-30 11:12	rhertzog	Resolution	open => fixed
2020-01-30 11:12	rhertzog	Fixed in Version	=> 2020.2
2020-01-30 11:12	rhertzog	Note Added: 0011974

rhertzog 2020-01-30 11:12 administrator ~0011974	I just uploaded kali-meta 2020.2.1 fixing this. kali-linux-core now recommends the firmware packages that we want. See https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/packages/kali-meta/commit/ab9b97dac78ec16f1c5fe20a4724c9a1e14d02a0 Note that firmware-ralink is empty, it's firmware-misc-nonfree that has the relevant files.