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14th July 2006, 06:58 PM
#1
2.6.17 breaks rt2500 wifi?
Just install 2.6.17-1.2145 and rebuilt rt2500-cvs-2006071310 of the rt2500 driver for my Ralink PCMCIA card (also tried an older version) and it builds and can do simple things like ping, nslookup, traceroute etc. but anything more taxing like web browsing or email just hang timeout.
Anybody have any ideas?
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com seems to be down too, so I can't search their forums.
There was talk of the Ralink drivers getting into the kernel along with the new Broadcom stuff, I thought maybe this has happened, and that's why it's not working properly, but I can't find an references to it in /lib/modules or system-config-network
Booting back into 2.6.16-1.2122 works fine.
Is this just another 2.6.17 bug, which has got to be the worst kernel ever!
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15th July 2006, 09:56 AM
#2
I had no problems after updating to 2.6.17-1.2145, just installed the rt2500-cvs-2006042413 from source which was laying around on my hard disk, no problems since.
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15th July 2006, 06:35 PM
#3
looks like it may be due to the fedora 2.6.17 kernel really being a 2.6.18pre kernel and the switch to the dreamscape 802.11 stack from the ralink one.
although i tried an earlier cvs version and it still doesn't work. maybe it's gcc 4.1.1 problems.
it's weird that there's no errors and basic networking works.
i'm using wep are you using encryption of some kind?
it connects to the router at 54mbps.
i may try the rt2x00 beta driver later, as the rt2500 drivers are now marked legacy.
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16th July 2006, 05:47 PM
#4
That may be a point.
I don't feel the need to use WEP, I just use MAC filtering and don't broadcast my SSID.
Mine too runs at 54 Mbps
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16th July 2006, 07:08 PM
#5
i've just tried another card (belkin with rt2500) and it doesn't work either.
it's my folks' router, so i don't think i'll turn off wep, i broadcase the ssid and have mac filtering, i might just try turning off wep to prove the point maybe.
i couldn't compile the rt2x00 beta drivers, due to this 2.6.17 = 2.6.18 kernel naming thing with fedora.
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