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  1. Bug #190515
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Comment 42 for bug 190515

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Wayne Schuller (k-wayne) wrote : Re: [Hardy] Low bandwidth with rt2400 / rt2500 drivers

Some short comments:

- This is definitely a regression. In Gutsy (even Feisty!) there was a reliable version of the driver. In Hardy there is a crappier version related to the code that was merged into the main linux tree. I quote from the front page rtx00 upstream web site:

rt2x00 enters mainline kernel - January 2008
Hi All,
two days ago, January 24th, Linux Kernel 2.6.24 was released. This is the first mainline kernel that includes (sadly a somewhat buggy) rt2x00 release.

- It is more than just the rate issue. The code seems to have other problems. I have very variable success with associating under the same setup that worked perfectly under the hardy rt2500pci module.

- I have linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-16-generic installed. doesn't help. Sometimes I get good performance, other times I can't even associate.

What can be done to fix this? It kills/blocks/subverts networking on this popular network hardware (rt2500) in Hardy.