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. -- Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/ Linux1394: http://www.linux1394.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/