[Bug 134660] Re: Ralink rt2400 / rt2500 / rt2570 / rt61 / rt73 do not work out of the box in Gutsy/Hardy

[Piotr Makowski]

** Description changed:

- Ralink drivers are under heavy development. The legacy drivers should be
- used in Ubuntu by default or the newest (next-generation) version BUT
- ONLY when will offer the proper connection speed. Begginers won't fix
- that bug because they won't know how to install that drivers with
- module-assistant. Ralink cards should work out-of the box.
- 
- The bug affects a lot of ralink-based cards so it's very important to be
- fixed in Hardy!
- 
- 
  ===
  The poll shows that most of the problems with wireless networking are problems with ralink cards in Ubuntu.
  POLL: What wireless chipset are you having a problem with in Gutsy?
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4178322
+ 
+ The bug occurs commonly and it's very important - and will be easy - to fix it.
+ ======================================
+ 
+ Cards don't work because of the invalid drivers (extremely slow
+ connection, no connection, connection lost, lack of the wpa support)
+ included in Ubuntu.
+ 
+ Work-around: To install the proper driver from serialmonkey.
+ 
+ SOLUTION:
+ 1. Find out which version of a serialmonkey driver works properly with each ralink card.
+ 2. Implement ralink serialmonkey drivers in Ubuntu.
+ 
+ http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/
+ 
+ Most likely the newest CVS version of each ralink driver works
+ correctly.
+ 
  ===
+ Please write which drivers are known to work and which are invalid.
+ ==
  
- 
- The rt73 is known to work only with rt73-cvs-2007072709 version.
- rt2400-source - source for rt2400 wireless network driver: Version: 1.2.2+cvs20070219-3
- rt2500-source - source for rt2500 wireless network driver: Version: 1:1.1.0-b4-4ubuntu1
- rt2570-source - RT2570 wireless network drivers source: Version: 1.1.0+cvs20070219-2
+ Exemplary posts on ubuntuforums.org:
  
  Linksys WUSB54G V4 (rt2570-based card)
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=588045
  
  HOWTO: RT73 (RT71) serialmonkey drivers
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=400236
  
- ======
- 
+ ====================
+ OLD BUG DESCRIPTION:
+ ====================
  I configured my rt2400 card connection in network-admin succesfully but the connection is extremely slow. 
  Ping works, but I can't get into any website, download packages through Synaptic even if waiting a few minutes.
  The card was recognized by Feisty as ra0, but now it's wlan0 in Gutsy.
  
  PING onet.pl (213.180.130.200) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 213.180.130.200: icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=93.6 ms
  64 bytes from 213.180.130.200: icmp_seq=5 ttl=52 time=82.8 ms
  64 bytes from 213.180.130.200: icmp_seq=6 ttl=52 time=96.9 ms
  
  The problem does not occur when running Feisty and when running Gutsy
  with Feisty kernel (2.6.20.x). The newest Gutsy and Hardy kernel still
  generates problems with ralink card. The transfer rate is extremly low -
  678 b/s - 1391 b/s.

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Ralink rt2400 / rt2500 / rt2570 / rt61 / rt73 do not work out of the box in Gutsy/Hardy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134660
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