It's Broke
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Troubleshooting Tips for rt2500
- If you have SMP enabled, turn it off
- Read Module\TESTING and see how to post a DEBUG trace.
- If you have run RaConfig and/or have a /etc/Wireless/Ralink/..... directory structure then delete it, don't use RaConfig, and try to configure using the command line utilities (iwconfig, ifconfig)
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Troubleshooting Tips for rt2570
- Stability issues can be addressed by disabling USB2.0 (ehci) and dropping back to USB1.1 (ohci). You can do this by blacklisting the ehci module
- If you have SMP enabled, turn it off
- If you have PREEMPT enabled, turn it off
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Common Troubleshooting Tips
- If you are getting a hard panic (system freeze) then you should recompile your kernel with SYSRQ enabled, exit of out X11, enable SYSRQ (cat 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq) and then reproduce the issue from the command line and post a SYSRQ+ALT+P trace.
