Comment 233 for bug 134660

I posted some time ago my information:
rt2500 in a pcmcia card (and other one in PCI) that works flawless in
gutsy (with minor issues like not reporting rate) results in a card
that works in hardy, but terribly slow. After connecting, if you do:

$sudo iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M

...then problems seems to go away. I'm connecting to a wpa-psk g
access point, and getting between 1000 and 2000 KiB/s with the pcmcia,
and 1500-2400 KiB/s with the PCI one.

The news: I tried the linux-backports-modules-hardy package and my
problems persisted.

By the way, i'm trying to workaround with a simple script in
/etc/network/if-up.d/ with no success at all. That simple script is
like this:

galvesband@sysop:~$ cat /etc/network/if-up.d/99rt2500_hack
#! /bin/sh

# Only for wlan0...
[ "$IFACE" = "wlan0" ] || exit 0

wait 5
iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M

This seems to works at first sight, but it isn't working at all:
iwconfig report a 54Mb rate, but practical speed seem to be limited to
80 KiB/s, very far from the 1000/1500 KiB/s I usually achieve.

I'm not sure if this helps anyone. I just saw people go on reporting
and wondered if this improves the information a gave previously.

Regards.