Comment 32 for bug 340418

All this 'slowlyness' of certain netcards started with kernel 2.6.25 or 2.6.26.
I have the same problem since with my rt2500 (Belkin PCMCIA).
In the beginning of this problem, I could work around it for Puppy, Ubuntu and Mandriva. But when it came to kernel 2.6.28 that work-around didn't work any more.

As you can see (read) the problem is been around for a long time now. And I can see that this bug is in progress. But that doesn't help those who are 'infected' by this bug.

For what it's worth, I'll note the work-around again here. Maybe it might ring a bell for the people working on this bug.

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Add to /etc/rc.local

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M fixed

exit 0
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In Puppy, I had to use this as a batch-file, because the file /etc/rc.local did not exist.

And as I said: since kernel 2.6.28 this doesn't work any more.