Comment 139 for bug 210725
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| Brian Harkness (maestro-bwh) wrote | #139 |
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I tried this with Hardy and I got errors about a kernel it was looking for? It looked like it installed anyway, but I prefer a repo install just in case there are updates.
Hand compiled from the ralink site, It was unstable and frequently the internet would just stall and would only work again if I brought ra0 down then up again, and it made the device show up twice with
sudo lshw -C network
I used Stéphane Graber's repo for the ppa and I seemed to be in better luck than hand compiling the driver. I still find that even within 10 feet of my router unobstructed, the net would just stop working that the leds on the router would just "sit" there for a time. If I reinitialized the connection I was back in business.
On a hunch, I manually set the bit rate down to 11M and I have not had the issue. The ralink driver at least for Linux does not seem to support auto bit rate and just puts it at 54M... not good for laptop users trying to conserve battery power perhaps?
sudo iwconfig ra0 rate 11M
works but
sudo iwconfig ra0 rate 11M auto
shows an error. It also accepts a rate of 24M, but since my internet speed never exceeds 5M, I will take the stability of a lower speed.