Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2012-08-08 Thread Nathan Schulte
Hi folks. I've been requested to report a bug that I've discovered regarding troubles with the rt2500pci kernel module. As the subject suggests, with my card I'm receiving very poor transfer rate and link quality. The Debian bug report for this issue can be found here:

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2012-08-08 Thread Nathan Schulte
I found the following bug report and associated mailing list thread of interest. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13362 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/840990 After reading the above, I decided to play around a bit more. I booted the 2.6.32 kernel and immediately tried

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2012-08-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
submitter 598144 Nathan Schulte nmschu...@gmail.com tags 598144 - unreproducible quit Hi Nathan, Nathan Schulte wrote: I am receiving a similar issue as the bug reporter. As can be seen below, my kernel log is spammed with the same error. Using the Debian Squeeze ISO as a baseline, the

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2012-08-06 Thread Nathan Schulte
Jonathan Nieder wrote: Thanks! I'm setting you as the new contact for this bug. Okay, sounds good. I hope I can help solve this. Can you try a 3.x.y kernel from squeeze-backports, sid, or experimental? The only packages from outside squeeze that should be needed for this test aside from

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2012-08-06 Thread Nathan Schulte
Nathan Schulte wrote: I am receiving a similar issue as the bug reporter. As can be seen below, my kernel log is spammed with the same error. Using the Debian Squeeze ISO as a baseline, the machine tops out downloading the ISO at around 80 kb/s. Another machine on the same access point via an

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2012-08-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 598144 src:linux 3.2.21-3 found 598144 linux-2.6/2.6.32-20 found 598144 linux-2.6/2.6.32-45 quit Nathan Schulte wrote: $ uname -a Linux desmas-s 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Jun 29 20:42:29 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux [...] It looks like the problem is still prevalent. Thanks for

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality (Re: Probably reproduced)

2012-07-01 Thread Filipus Klutiero
On 2012-06-19 23:34, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi Filipus, Filipus Klutiero wrote: I probably reproduced this after testing a wheezy daily on an ASUS Z71A using an RT2500. I got this error message and several others. Ok, now I finally got a chance to look up the bug. So do you mean that

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality (Re: Probably reproduced)

2012-06-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Filipus, Filipus Klutiero wrote: I probably reproduced this after testing a wheezy daily on an ASUS Z71A using an RT2500. I got this error message and several others. Ok, now I finally got a chance to look up the bug. So do you mean that transfers were very slow and you got the message

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2011-12-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 598144 = unreproducible quit David Sanchez Herrero wrote: Thanks for reply about this problem, but the laptop with rt2500 wireless card died 6 or 7 months ago (a graphic card crash), so I can't try the 3.1 kernel version. Alas. Hopefully some hero with the same hardware can come and

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2011-12-08 Thread David Sanchez Herrero
Hi again, Finally, after analyzing my laptop's hard disk, I have remembered the final solution, that was using Ndiswrapper with rt2500 Windows drivers. It was the only way... Greetings, David. 2011/12/5 David Sanchez Herrero david.kru...@gmail.com Hi Jonathan, Thanks for reply about this

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2011-12-05 Thread David Sanchez Herrero
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for reply about this problem, but the laptop with rt2500 wireless card died 6 or 7 months ago (a graphic card crash), so I can't try the 3.1 kernel version. I think that after a lot of tests (compiling a new module version using compat-wireless project, compiling the drivers

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2011-12-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# forwarded last year: # http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/56714 # no response, so let's try again. notforwarded 598144 quit Heya, Regarding version 2.6.32-20, David Sánchez Herrero wrote: I have been using rt2500pci since rt2500 legacy drivers source package

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2010-09-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 18:52 +0200, David Sanchez Herrero wrote: Hi again, After some troubles that I could solve, I connected the interface, but it's impossible to make anything because in all terminals appears one message continously: cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2010-09-29 Thread David Sanchez Herrero
Hi again, After some troubles that I could solve, I connected the interface, but it's impossible to make anything because in all terminals appears one message continously: cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain. I can see that I lose the connection, probably because this

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2010-09-28 Thread David Sanchez Herrero
Hi, My idea was to test with NetworkManager and try to download some files, etc., but I think I can do some tests without graphic enviroment. Between this afternoon and tomorrow night I'm going to try it, and I'll tell you. Greetings. 2010/9/28 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk On Mon,

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2010-09-27 Thread David Sanchez Herrero
Hi again, I need to compile the graphics card drivers (Nvidia) and I can't find headers for 2.6.35 kernel in the repository (deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main). Instead, I install linux-image-2.6.36-rc5-686, that has header packages available, but I can't install header packages

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2010-09-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 19:03 +0200, David Sanchez Herrero wrote: Hi again, I need to compile the graphics card drivers (Nvidia) and I can't find headers for 2.6.35 kernel in the repository (deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main). Instead, I install linux-image-2.6.36-rc5-686,

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2010-09-26 Thread David Sánchez Herrero
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-20 Severity: important File: rt2500pci Hi all, I have been using rt2500pci since rt2500 legacy drivers source package dissapeared from the repository, and I have had this problems from the first time until now. The legacy drivers worked fine, but with the new

Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

2010-09-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 22:33 +0200, David Sánchez Herrero wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-20 Severity: important File: rt2500pci Hi all, I have been using rt2500pci since rt2500 legacy drivers source package dissapeared from the repository, and I have had this problems from the