Hi, > I have a MSI PC54G2 Wireless NIC: > 00:0b.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01) > 00:0b.0 0280: 1814:0201 (rev 01) > > I have tested the speed with different rt2500pci versions and with the > rt2500 legacy driver, using a D-Link DI-524 wireless router in mixed > WPA/WPA2 TKIP/CCMP mode: > > Linux 2.6.23.13, rt2x00 from CVS, the last version I got to compile with > 2.6.23 (a copy of this source is here: > ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/rt2x00-cvs/rt2x00-cvs-20070914.tar.bz2): > The speed is about 100KB/s. > > Linux 2.6.24-rc7 (pulled from linux-2.6 git today): > The speed is about 20KB/s, which is obviously _much_ slower than the > older version above. > > Linux 2.6.23.13, latest rt2500 legacy release. > Speed is over 1MB/s when downloading from the Internet, 900KB/s when > downloading from another client on the same WLAN, which is a sane result > IMO. > > As you can see, the rt2500pci included in 2.6.24 is unusable when it > comes to speed, older versions were partially usable. However, if you > need good speed, the only way is to fall back to the legacy driver, with > the obvious problems (lack of wpa_supplicant support, thus only limited > WPA support). Set the rate to 54Mbs instead of auto, other people reported that that should help. Ivo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
