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Nicolas Deschildre (ndeschildre) wrote : [hardy alpha4]rt2500 works, but slowly

Binary package hint: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-5-generic

I'm using hardy alpha 4 (on Linux nand-laptop 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:45:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux ) and I was testing a PCMCIA rt2500 card :
 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI [1814:0201] (rev 01)
with WEP encryption, near the AP :
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"DartyBox_005c"
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:09:5B:EB:32:20
          Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
          Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
          Link Quality=43/100 Signal level=-54 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

The connection is working, but slowly (40 kb/s). It's due to the bit rate being set to 1Mb/s. If I manually set the rate to 54Mb/s, then I got the 900 kb/s I expect from my AP.

I have also tested with one other RT based I have, a RT73 one, and the bit rate goes automatically to 54Mb/s...