Package: rt2500-source
Version: 1.1.0+cvs20050530-2
The package generated by rt2500-source depends unnecessarily on
rt2500-base.
When RT2500STA.dat (from rt2500-base) is present, the kernel module
gets confused when wireless settings are also in
/etc/network/interfaces.
I used to have a working verstion of the rt2500 module installed (based
on the cvs version and installed without a proper debian package),
using the standard debian way of setting up the wireless parameters in
the interfaces file:
auto ra0
iface ra0 inet dhcp
wireless_mode Ad-Hoc
wireless_essid <myessid>
wireless_channel <mychannel>
wireless_key restricted <mykey>
After installing the packaged version, with the 3 rt2500-related
packages (and only changing the module options to use ifname=ra%d), it
wouldn't work. At bootup, dhclient wouldn't find anything.
I realised that "ifup ra0" didn't actually set up the wireless
parameters, in particular, iwconfig ra0 wouldn't show any encryption
key.
The /etc/Wireless/RT2500STA/RT2500STA.dat file was untouched from the
standard installation (and therefore didn't contain my keys).
Setting the key manually with iwconfig, whilst dhclient was running,
would solve the problem, but only temporarily. After a while, the
module would try to load RT2500STA.dat again, and all the iwconfig
settings would go away.
Deleting RT2500STA.dat seems to solve the problem once and for all.
I prefer the debian way (in network/interfaces) of configuring the
wireless parameters, it's more consistent with modules for other cards
as well.
Since RT2500STA.dat is not really necessary, maybe the packaging should
be done slighlty differently (I guess it's really required for people
who want to use RaConfig2500, in package rt2500).
The problem is that the dependency makes it compulsory to install
rt2500 and rt2500-base with the module package generated by
rt2500-source, whereas in fact, in works well without them.
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