Comment 7 for bug 64334

Averatec 3270-EH1 with rt2500

Edgy operates this way:
eth0 works fine in both live and installed
wifi no...
once hit 'enable connection' keyboard and mouse freeze, but not completely... I describe it as a 2-4 second stutter, with keyboard entry and mouse movements only in about a one second gap between these 'stutters.'

Feisty Herd4 (live mode)
I assume that wifi is enabled at boot - as boot-up was still in process 25 minutes later (with plain blue desktop showing and empty taskbar, and 'bouncing' K icon just beginning to show) as I have this same protracted boot (probably from the intermittant operation mentioned under Edgy) with Edgy if wifi is enabled at boot-up.

I have tried adding acpi=noirq to menu.lst in Edgy (from #48263) but that does not work.
Has anyone else had success with the above work-around?

Reporting this from another (desktop) machine...so I know that Feisty Herd4 CD is viable.

I can verify this same problem with other distros:
elive .6.1
Mepis 6.0
Knoppix 5.1.1
DreamLinux 2.2
Mandriva 2007

This wifi DOES work with elive .5... but not with Dapper...

If I can help with any testing...please contact me.