Bruno thanks for your workaround! Now my Compaq/HP netbook (CQ10-400CA ) will actually shutdown/reboot - plus it now connects with wpa2 at 54mbps... still won't connect with "n" but this is much better than the 1-2Mbps it was getting before even while showing 100% signal strength!
lspci -vv shows: 02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe Subsystem: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at 52000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: rt2860 Kernel modules: rt2860sta, rt2800pci -- [Maverick][2.6.35] RT2860 (ralink) broken with rt2800pci https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/594866 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs