I would like to install the full suite of Backtrack 5R2 tools and utilities on a PC built with the latest Ubuntu release, 12.04, and a Ubuntu mainline kernel 3.5 with the latest compat-wireless...

You seem to have kick off a debate between some of the major devs. I will be watching it closely. Good luck.

Hi Hannah,

The TX Power patch is reported NOT to work in a post this morning on the RT2x00 driver developers mailing list, see...

No need to apologise. My replies to your posts take days to appear on this forum possibly because I am a newbie and do not post much.

I am very pleased to see the TX-Power issue has been resolved...

The Tx-Power patch is now official, see http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/pipermail/users_rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/2012-July/005126.html

Very well done. You can get the patch here: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1155651/

The patch simply changes the order of two variables in a function in the file rt2x00usb.c which you will...

I saw this morning that a code patch will be added soon to compat-wireless that will address the Tx-Power issue, see...

Hi Hannah, you need to read the Linux Wireless site for their explanation of the distinction between "stable" and "bleeding edge" compat-wireless versions,...

Good idea but I note that the latest 'bleeding edge' version of compat-wireless, (available here: http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/) predates the RT2x00usb.c patch (see...

Hi Hannah,

The first point is that the Tx-Power = 0 "bug" is largely cosmetic, transmit power is not zero in reality, the "bug" just reports it as zero because it does not know the true value....

A major bug was fixed yesterday in compat-wireless which impacted all Ralink 3070 devices, including those with device id 148f:3070. See both the thread entitled [rt2x00-users] rt2800usb stops at...

Hannah,

Hello. I have this usb wifi radio, ID 148f:3070. Tx-Power is also zero for me. You should be aware that there are known bugs with the kernel driver, see...

FYI

The 3.2-stable linux kernel tree was patched on March 7th with "rtl8192cu-add-new-device-ids.patch" which includes "8188RU in Alfa AWUS036NHR". Those of you with Backtrack 5R2 may wish to try...