Bug#506223: I can confirm that

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:10:47PM +0000, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> I just wiped my etch installation and replaced it with a fresh lenny
> installation. The installer auto-detected my wifi card and used the
> rt2500pci driver.
> 
> By default it achieves:
>  - 1Mbps rate (as reported by iwconfig - I can only download at max.
>    ~20KBps)
>  - approx "50% link quality"
> 
> When I manually set it to "rate 11M", the reported bit rate goes to 11M,
> the real download speed improves by about 50% and the "link quality"
> goes to about 70%, but it's still a far cry from what the card can
> achieve.
> 
> It works just fine using ndiswrapper...

Has this been fixed in later kernels like the 2.6.30 from unstable or
backports.org? There have been many changes since the Lenny kernel.

Cheers,
        Moritz