Bug#598144: rt2500pci: very low transfers and link quality

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

submitter 598144 Nathan Schulte <nmschulte@gmail.com>
tags 598144 - unreproducible
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Hi Nathan,

Nathan Schulte wrote:

> I am receiving a similar issue as the bug reporter.  As can be seen
> below, my kernel log is spammed with the same error.  Using the Debian
> Squeeze ISO as a baseline, the machine tops out downloading the ISO at
> around 80 kb/s.  Another machine on the same access point via an Atheros
> card dowloads from the same mirror at over 1 Mb/s.
>
> As can be seen in the kernel log below, the logged message can be
> stopped; I did so by issuing the command:
>
> # iwconfig wlan0 power off
>
> However, I still receive poor throughput.
>
> I can reproduce these issues, and would like to help with the ticket.

Thanks!  I'm setting you as the new contact for this bug.

Can you try a 3.x.y kernel from squeeze-backports, sid, or
experimental?  The only packages from outside squeeze that should be
needed for this test aside from the kernel itself are linux-base and
initramfs-tools.

If it works well, we can try to track down what change fixed it and
apply the same fix to squeeze.  If it doesn't work well, we can try to
reproduce it without the nvidia driver and then get help from
upstream.  So either result is a win.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan