[Bug 34902] Re: Ralink Wireless USB/PCMCIA/PCI hangs PC

[ihavenoname]

Honestly, if the license premits, then I think it would be much better
to setup the Restricted Drivers manager to handle this using
ndiswrapper. The ndiswrapper drivers tend to work really well for this
card. I have this working myself (Linksys WUSB54gv) on feisty and I
haven't had a freeze but from dapper to edgy the freezes have come. I
haven't used feisty much though so it might also freeze there. My
understanding is that once a few thins get worked out this will become
part of the upstream kernel. I think it would be wise to wait for that,
and simply provide the option for people to have this installed if they
have this driver. SO that the people who this works for can use it. And
for those whom this driver does not work, they can find a different
method. My experiance has had this driver causeing hard freezes.( This
driver being the rt2570 driver). It doesn't seem to me that there is an
actual deb for this, rather it is built in with the kernel, (or as a
module). Why not have it be seperate from the kernel? (If ndiswrapper is
not an option that's ok the point of this was to say that this driver
doesn't seem to be 100% stable, and should not be built in by default.
If it were a deb uninstalling would be much easier.) No offense to
anyone intended.

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Ralink Wireless USB/PCMCIA/PCI hangs PC
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