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  1. Bug #581936
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Comment 7 for bug 581936

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jhoechtl (johann-hoechtl) wrote : Re: Sudden drop of connecton speed

Yes, following http://edtake.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/ubuntu-slow-wireless-after-upgrading-to-10-04/ didn't helped either, in contrary, I completely lost my eth1 wlan port, but purging linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic helped.

BTW: According to the wifi mailing list this regression was introduced actually in Sept 2009 by fixing an rt2500pci bug which led to a rewrite of some parts of the wifi kernel stack. The rewritten parts are a common code path of some drivers and as such the problem is persistent for many hardware types. I couldn't identify a more fitting launchpad bug and

* there is no work around
* nobody with insight made a blog post yet describing the problem in more detail
* activating pre-release packages in ubuntu makes no difference; there is no fix, not even an untested
but
* work on the wifi mainling list is ongoing and there are success reports.