Comment 81 for bug 190515

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Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt) wrote : Re: [Hardy] Low bandwidth with rt2400 / rt2500 drivers

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.27-4-generic
02:09.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
         Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 6833
         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
         Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
         Region 0: Memory at fbffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
         Kernel driver in use: rt2500pci
         Kernel modules: rt2500pci
This card, when used with:
% iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M auto
will never stay at 54M, but instead will immediately drop to 1M and stay there.
 Setting the rate using:
% iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M
locks the card at 54M, which is fine.
linux-image-2.6.27-4-generic 2.6.27-4.6