Hi again, Finally, after analyzing my laptop's hard disk, I have remembered the final solution, that was using Ndiswrapper with rt2500 Windows drivers. It was the only way...
Greetings, David. 2011/12/5 David Sanchez Herrero <david.kru...@gmail.com> > Hi Jonathan, > > Thanks for reply about this problem, but the laptop with rt2500 wireless > card died 6 or 7 months ago (a graphic card crash), so I can't try the 3.1 > kernel version. I think that after a lot of tests (compiling a new module > version using compat-wireless project, compiling the drivers from Ralink, > updating the kernel version, disabling Network-Manager to manually > configure the card, ...), I finally got the wireless card working fine, but > now I can't remember which was the final solution to the problem. > > I'm sure that there was something bad with the rt2500pci module because I > found a lot of information about the problem, associated to different > distros, and I could verify with a Live CD that the problem was in Ubuntu > too. > > I'm thinking about analyze the laptop hard disk this Christmas to recover > some files to my new computer, so if I find some information about the > solutión that I applied, I promise to write again to tell you. > > Meanwhile, I think that you can mark this bug as solved if you want. > > Greetings, David. > > El 3 de diciembre de 2011 08:19, Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>escribió: > > # forwarded last year: >> # http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/56714 >> # no response, so let's try again. >> notforwarded 598144 >> quit >> >> Heya, >> >> Regarding version 2.6.32-20, David Sánchez Herrero wrote: >> >> > I have been using rt2500pci since rt2500 legacy drivers source package >> > dissapeared from the repository, and I have had this problems from the >> first >> > time until now. The legacy drivers worked fine, but with the new ones I >> have >> > very low transfers and poor link quality. >> >> That's no good. So let's see. >> >> [...] >> > it's >> > impossible to make anything because in all terminals appears one message >> > continously: >> > >> > cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain. >> > >> > I can see that I lose the connection, probably because this message. >> This >> > happens with 2.6.36-rc5-686 kernel. Any idea about solving this problem? >> >> Very odd. Does it still happen? >> >> [...] >> > This problem doesn't exists with 2.6.32-5-686 kernel, but with it, I >> > have again the error message that appears in my first report: >> > >> > phy0 -> rt2500pci_set_device_state: Error - Device failed to enter >> state 1 (-16). >> >> Which kernel version is that? You can get the currently running >> kernel version by running "cat /proc/version" and looking for the >> string in parentheses. >> >> I don't see any relevant fixes upstream (amazingly, since the driver >> has had a lot of work done). If you can get a chance to test a 3.1.y >> or later kernel from sid, that would be very helpful. (Then we can >> get help from upstream.) For graphics, while testing you can use the >> vesa driver or nouveau. >> >> Thanks for writing and hope that helps, >> Jonathan >> >> [...] >> > 01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. >> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 01) >> > Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:3fcc] >> > >
