From: Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
To: Wiktor Wandachowicz <siryes@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.20+ and rt2500/rt2570 problem
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:45:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1177181113.6369.2.camel@cunning> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <254054bc0704210718t20ec96et3b7ab82ef783684f@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 16:18 +0200, Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote:
> Recently I tried newer releases of Linux distributions, specifically
> Sabayon Linux 3.3 and Ubuntu 7.04. Both suffer from problems with
> rt2500/rt2570 modules not being able to associate with access points.
> There are numerous problems reported Ubuntu Launchpad, Gentoo Forums
> and Sabayon Forums.
>
> Please, Linux kernel developers, try to help out the guys at:
> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/
>
> They look pretty clueless and don't know exactly what to do.
> It seems that advances in kernel to Wireless Extensions 19 broke
> their efforts somewhat.
>
> If possible, speed up the inclusion process of the driver into mainline
> kernel, so users won't have to be forced to do a hardware upgrade.
> Additionally, this problem prevents my machines from being upgraded from
> Ubuntu 6.10 (kernel 2.6.17) to Ubuntu 7.04 (kernel 2.6.20 I believe).
There are two modules in Ubuntu for this chipset, the rt2500 (default)
and rt2500{pci,usb}. You could try blacklisting rt2500 and use
rt2500pci. See if that helps.
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2007-04-21 14:18 Kernel 2.6.20+ and rt2500/rt2570 problem Wiktor Wandachowicz
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