Comment 135 for bug 541620

I Have the RT3090 in my laptop working reliably using the rt2860sta driver module in 802.11g mode with WPA2 security and controlled by NetWorkManager under Ubuntu 10.10 64 Bit with the "2.6.35-27-generic" kernel. I had to blacklist the rt2800pci module.

FWIW - In my experience with a variety of WiFi cards and routers/access points, if the router/ap is configured for multiple wireless modes e.g 802.11b and 802.11g and 802.11n and multiple security protocols e.g WEP and WPA and WPA2, then wireless connections from many linux drivers can be less reliable. On a number of occasions, I have solved such problems by configuring the router/ap to use a single network mode (802.11g) and a single security mode WPA2.

Additionally, unless you need to roam between multiple access points which have the same name (e.g. university campus), connection stability can be further improved by adding the access point's MAC address to the BSSID field in your linux client configuration for that access point.

I've also encountered situations where linux wireless drivers will not connect to access points on channels 12 and 13.