Question on wireless module

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Wed Oct 17 22:54:56 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 10:00 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 10:58 +0000, Mike C wrote:
> > I have recently been testing the rt2x00 driver and specifically the rt73usb
> > component with a usb wireless adapter, using the test kernels currently
> > available for F7 in updates-testing.
> > 
> > However the wireless link is very unstable and throws streams of messages at the
> > terminal as well as in the alternative consoles. I reported this in bugzilla.
> > 
> > The question I have is whether the version of rt2x00 (and rt73usb) in rawhide is
> > nearer to being usable than the driver in the F7 kernels? Therefore another
> > question is whether it would be likely to work if I simply installed the rawhide
> > current kernel into F7 (and maybe the rawhide wpa_supplicant also?) and see if
> > that would give more stability?  
> 
> I have an rt73usb device that's been working pretty consistently with
> rawhide kernels for the past 3 weeks (Belkin F5D7050 ver 1000).  I
> haven't had kernel oopses with it, and it seems to do fine with light
> traffic (and even yum upgrades).

I really can't say I've had that much luck. It worked fine doing yum
upgrades, but slowed down to a crawl accessing some sites like
bugzilla.redhat.com. Switching back to rt73, or accessing the same site
with my laptop worked just fine.

I'm not sure what information one can draw from that, but, as usual,
trying out version+1 of the kernel is more useful than reporting kernel
bugs.




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