Comment 93 for bug 190515

Confirm - things get even worser with Ubuntu 8.10. Using the rt2500pci driver and NetworkManager my WLAN-Router started to hang after some ammount of traffic (just using aptitude update was enougt). Had to reboot the router to be able to connect again.

Just after compiling the rt2500 from serialmonkey and loading this driver all problems disappeared. Router is stable for few days now (downloaded few Gigabytes for testing). This represents just a workaround (NOT a solution) as rt2500 driver is not compatible with Network-Manager.

I guess not every PCI card behaves like mine in conjunction with the rt2500pci driver, so developers can't reproduce this bug or do not have the time. This bug now exists for a year... I lost any hope to get this fixed. Currently I'm searching for a Intel-based wlan pci card as I had no problems so far with (any) IBM laptop that use intel hardware.

Anyway - for sake of completeness here are my results :

PC boots and rt2500pci driver is loaded. iwconfig shows a speed of just 1MBit for wlan0: NetworkManager connects normally the access point. (The following appeared with Intrepid: After some traffic my router hangs - no DNS queries possible. Current connections continue as IP is already in clients cache. Have to restart my router.)
Using iwconfig wlan0 rate xyM I can boost speed up noticably. iwconfig still shows 1M for speed. I have to reconnect using the NetworkManager to get iwconfig show the new speed I setup previosly.