hopefully simple firmware issue

[dpayne19]

I'm new to debian, but not linux. I'm having an issue with my Ra link wireless card, version rt61pci. Right now the wireless doesn't work. When I run ifconfig wlan0 I get the follwing:

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base:~# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

Here's the tail of dmesg after running ifconfig.

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firmware: requesting rt2561s.bin
phy0 _-> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.

It seems to be a lack of firmware. The firmware I think I need is firmware-ralink I have no internet connection so I can't install the package from the machine, however I downloaded the package from another comp and tried to install it from the tar file. This is where I run into problems, I don't know how to install it. There's no make file or anything. Just a few directories with *.bin files in them. I think what I need is to put the rt2561s.bin file some where, but I'm not sure where. Any help would be appreciated.

[kad]

Download the deb package instead of the tar: in the same site you indicated, at the bottom of the page there is a link to the deb.

Install the deb running this command as root:

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dpkg -i name_of_the_packge.deb