I tried the backports package on a laptop with a build-in intel wireless and a ralink pcmcia card. It did make the ralink be set to 56mbps but i couldnt actually test it because when i deactivated the build-in wlan, the pcmcia card died too (disappeared from the network manager). Tried both with a hw-switch and a sw-switch from acerhk (which normally works with the intel chip) . I also deactivated roaming mode on the intel card in network settings and set it to zeroconf-something. Still, NetworkManager didnt see the ralink. As soon as it could see the intel, it saw the ralink too, but not alone.
Then i upgraded to Ibex alpha6. Here i could make the intel unavailable (even though there seems not to be a clean way - the hw-switch still turns off all wireless in Network Manager and the acerhk doesnt compile on 2.6.27 and gcc 4.3.2). Either way, the ralink works okey, but not well: at half the speed of intel (660kbytes/s as opposed to 1.4Mbytes/sek downloading identical file) and it doesnt seem to be able to connect to wpa protected network. Also it doesnt list all the networks intel lists. -- wireless rt61pci driver buggy in Hardy alpha (only 1Mbit/s) - used to be fine on Gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198267 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
