Bug#451906: rt73-common: /etc/udev/rules.d/85-rt73.rules contains deprecated udev rule

[Piotr Roszatycki]

2007/11/25, Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>:
> On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 13:47 +0100, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> > 2007/11/25, Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>:
> > > Now it looks like the Ralink drivers do not allow setting most wireless
> > > parameters while they are down (though rt2500 alone seems to be more
> > > flexible).  Unfortunately, when using ifupdown and wireless-tools, this
> > > is exactly what is attempted - see bug #403983.  Is this what you were
> > > trying to work around, Piotr?
> >
> > Yes, it is a workaround for this bug. Please, notice that udev rule is
> > required also for i.e. rutilt and other similar utilities. I was very
> > disappointed that rutilt didn't work after I plugged the wi-fi dongle.
>
> I patched rutilt to work around this (018_up_and_down.diff).  I believe
> this has been applied upstream.

Do you mean this patch which is removed from Ubuntu?

rutilt (0.15-0ubuntu5.2) gutsy-proposed; urgency=low

  * Revised 018_up_and_down.diff (LP: #164058) :
    remove the change to configuration code that would bring the interface
    down before setting ESSID, as this is not necessary and does not work
    with all drivers (notably the r73 one).
    Thanks to Debian/Ben Hutchings.

I know that just legacy rt73 driver is broken but I think our
workarounds can break other things.

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