Bug#462831: rt73.ko driver causes load average 2.0

[Ondrej Certik]

On Jan 30, 2008 9:46 AM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2008 1:16 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 22:40 +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > > > install 2.6.24 from unstable should have newer version?
> > > > > and see how it works..
> > > >
> > > > That's actually a different driver (rt73usb), which is also available
> > > > for 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 through the rt2x00-source package.
> > >
> > > There is no rt73.ko in the 2.6.24 as far as I know.
> >
> > It has rt73pci, which is a new and cleaner driver.
>
> Where is this driver? I didn't find it:
>
> $ ls /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-686/kernel/drivers/net/r*
> /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-686/kernel/drivers/net/r8169.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-686/kernel/drivers/net/rrunner.ko
>
> and modprobe also didn't find it.
>
> BTW, I have a USB wifi card, so maybe it won't work anyway.

So using rt73usb driver from 2.6.24 works like a charm with my usb
wifi card, now I have 0.01 load. So I think you can close this issue,
as the solution
is to use a different driver. Thanks very much for pointing me to this driver.

Ondrej