RaLink rt2500 wireless cards -- edgy regression?

[Jonathan Hudson]

Sean Hammond wrote:
> Can you give me an lspci or something to compare with mine?
> 
> I'd like to get to the bottom of this.

As below. Settings are unchanged from dapper.

-jh

Edimax PCMCIA Card on PPC
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lspci -vvvv

0001:11:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g
Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)        Subsystem: RaLink Unknown device 2560
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort-
<TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 58
        Region 0: Memory at f3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

dmesg
[   84.800002] PCI: Enabling device 0001:11:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
[   84.800015] rt2500 1.1.0 BETA4 2006/06/18
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
[   84.854179] rt2500 EEPROM:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13
14  Channel
[   84.854196] rt2500 EEPROM:  4  4  4  4  4  7  7  7  7  7  7  7  8
8  dBm Maximum

/etc/networks/interfaces
auto ra0
iface ra0 inet dhcp
  pre-up ifconfig ra0 down
  pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
  pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid MYESSID
  pre-up iwconfig ra0 mode Managed
  pre-up iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
  pre-up iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
  pre-up iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK=superdupersekreet

Sweex card on (ancient) IA32
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

lspci

00:0b.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI
(rev 01)
        Subsystem: RaLink Unknown device 2560
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
        Region 0: Memory at e0800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

dmesg

[   88.596911] PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0b.0
[   88.597276] rt2500 1.1.0 BETA4 2006/06/18
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
[   89.460990] rt2500 EEPROM:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13
14  Channel
[   89.461030] rt2500 EEPROM: 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31
31  dBm Maximum