Feisty and RT2500 Wifi card

[Shawn McCuan]

Keep us updated on your success/failure with this.
I also have a RT2500, and if feisty doesn't support it, I cant upgrade...

On 4/18/07, Geoffrey Horn <gwh at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:55:39 Tom Gederberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am new Ubuntu user (I switched over from Fedora) and have a question
> > about the new Feisty release.  It uses the 2.6.20 kernel which I believe
> > breaks the RT2500 driver - I know this because when Fedora Core 6
> > upgraded to the new kernel, the driver quit working and it would not
> > compile with the new kernel.
> >
> > Has anyone confirmed whether the R2500 driver will work with Feisty.  My
> > desktop only has a wireless connection.
> >
> > PS, I'm pretty glad I moved over to Ubuntu.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Tom
>
> I'm using this driver on Feisty and have experienced no problems. Main
> thing
> is to remove the network-manager package because it prevents the ralink
> inbuilt wpa-supplicant from working. Then configure
> /etc/network/interfaces
> by hand. I use WPAPSK-TKIP encryption.
>
> On the other hand another machine uses theRT61 driver and I have had
> problems
> with it freezing the machine. Apparently it is something to do with SMP
> enabled kernels (the norm). A recent development at serialmonley seems to
> have fixed this problem in the RT61 cvs driver, and I believe also for the
> RT2500 driver (though I don't experience this problem).
>
> The latest cvs tarballs are supposed to have the fix and can be had over
> at:
>
> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Downloads
>
> I don't think the latest Feisty drivers have this fix yet. For the RT2500
> driver I can configure everything in /etc/network/interfaces but for the
> RT61
> I have to use /etc/Wireless/RT61STA and configure it there. A google
> should
> find a procedure for this.
>
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