On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 17:30 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > This is a known bug that should be fixed in later versions of the > driver. A fixed version of the driver is included in Linux 2.6.24. > Please try installing that, if you can. I am still working on an update > to rt2x00-source for use in 2.6.22 and 2.6.23.
I've now tried running the Thinkpad with linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 from sid for a few hours (rest of the system remains entirely lenny). Well, it behaves differently under 2.6.24: - Seems to be very slow compared with 2.6.22+rt2x00. Under 2.6.24 iwconfig invariably says connected at 1Mbit (and this is confirmed by iftop monitoring during file transfers). Under 2.4.22 the same file transfers (NFS) have no problem running at >6Mbit/s (iwconfig under 2.4.22 doesn't actually list rate, but that's what iftop shows). - Instead of the connection hanging up under load (fixable by reinserting the wifi card under 2.4.22) the entire machine crashes hard. I haven't tried a serial-cable console to see if it's logging anything useful. It certainly seems to occur at the same sort of frequency as the 2.4.22 hang, and is more likely under load. - If I monitor the connection rate under 2.6.24 while true; do sudo iwconfig wlan0 ; sleep 10 ; done then quite often before a crash I get a couple of logs reporting 17Mbit/s connection speed and things speed up noticeably (I run various X11 things over wifi). Strange. Note that I still have rt2x00-modules-2.6.22-3-686 2.0.12+git20071103-1 +2.6.22-6 installed (module-assistant built from rt2x00-source 2.0.12 +git20071103-3). I haven't rebuilt these vs 2.6.24 so I assume it'll ignore that module and use its own builtin support. dpkg-query -S "rt2?00pci.ko" yields rt2x00-modules-2.6.22-3-686: /lib/modules/2.6.22-3-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00pci.ko rt2x00-modules-2.6.22-3-686: /lib/modules/2.6.22-3-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2400pci.ko rt2x00-modules-2.6.22-3-686: /lib/modules/2.6.22-3-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2500pci.ko linux-image-2.6.24-1-686: /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.ko linux-image-2.6.24-1-686: /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2400pci.ko linux-image-2.6.24-1-686: /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500pci.ko so I guess it must be loading the intended things. I could get hold of the crash console log by serial cable if it'd be helpful. Any other suggestions ? FWIW, iwconfig wlan0 outputs (MAC, key, ESSID obfuscated) for 2.6.24: wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"??????????" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.432 GHz Access Point: ??:??:??:??:??:?? Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key:????-????-????-????-????-????-????-????-????-????-????-????-????-????-????-???? [2] Link Quality=54/100 Signal level=-70 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 and for 2.6.22: wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"??????????" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.432 GHz Access Point: ??:??:??:??:??:?? Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key:????-????-????-????-????-????-????-????-????-????-????-????-????-????-????-???? Link Quality=46/100 Signal level=-57 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]