[NCLUG] Fedora 6 and the RaLink rt2500 wireless card

[Stephen Warren]

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Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 11:16:26AM -0700, David Braley wrote:
>> Why? Is there a problem when doing updates, especially kernels that will
> 
> Mostly it indicates drivers that are not very stable.  Seems like once
> they're stable, they go into the kernel before too long.  I've had a lot of
> problems with the drivers that I've had to manually build.

This reminds me; the Ralink chipset is what we used in the network media
receiver/player we developed at NVIDIA.

I found the actual packet handling to be nice and stable, but things
like configuration were unstable. For example, once it was setup and
working, I'd have to rmmod the module and reload it to get scanning to
work, or to associate with a different wireless base-station; the
regular methods of "deconfiguring" didn't work reliably.

I wrote our network scripts to handle this, but I don't think the
regular Fedora scripts will rmmod/modprobe all the time...

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