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[aarf]

thanks for the clarification tempestous
seems i had a basic misunderstanding of what my N would achieve.
i was under the false impression i would receive G transmissions that were in N range or improve the distance of G signals. but i now understand, hopefully correctly, that if the wifi signal is being sent only as G, my N receiver is not going to be of any additional help in connecting to the G signal? mostly i dont know where the wifi signals i connect to are coming from or they are in house at the endless array of cheap hotels i inhabit. so in all likely hood they are not N signal.

anyhow following the instruction for future eventualities.

luci268.
the code line wasn't there so added new line
rt2800usb:rt2870sta
rebooted and no change, same lsmod as before,
BK needs to betold will do.
so blacklisted rt2800usb
and then lsmod gives
usbcore 91279 7 uvcvideo,rt2870sta,usbhid,usb_storage,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd

Simple Network Setup then told me (attached) didnt retry.
Network Wizard connected.
is there any way to tell if the signal is N and not G without setting the "Ralink wifi driver into N-mode-only"? perhaps network wizard can be modified to do that.
will the network scans show both G and N at the same time?
ok did the N modification =6 to the file and rebooted. all original previous networks showed in the network scan and i connected. whether it is N is still to be determined.
havent got any fragile networks to test better connection at present only have good signal strength signals..
edit BK advise at BK blog.
edit reerwin PMed

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[aarf]

preliminary investigation show that the N modifications above have worked and am now able to use faster wifi N.

[aarf]

BarryK replies:

[aarf]

may have been a little hasty attributing the fasterspeed and name change to the N modifications
below is when using pfix=ram for doing rerwins request.

[aarf]

rerwins requested info attached and PMed.

[aarf]

in puppeee with no usb wireless N dongle

[aarf]

summary so far :we dont have a reliable way to test that it is connected to a N signal or even if an N signal exists. wlan0 name change in iwconfig may be wifi card name change.
cant be certain that WirelessMode=6 is actually doing anything at all.

[rerwin]

aarf,
Thanks for the diag file. Both the USB and STA drivers are indicated as supporting the USB device. The USB driver is the one chosen to be loaded, even without a preference. But the STA module somehow also gets loaded -- outside of the normal puppy module-loading process. I see no indication in modules.dep that there is a dependency relationship.

From your postings, I am not confident that you made a valid test of the blacklisting option. You say you blacklisted, but that lsmod still shows the STA module. You need to reboot for the blacklisting to take effect. Could you try it again? I have an idea of how to automate the blacklisting, so need to know whether that is effective. Does the STA module still get loaded even if blacklisted?

I also have a slightly different approach in mind. The attached dotpet package uses a modprobe configuration file to control the loading of rt2870sta when rt2800usb is already loaded. Please try it only after the blacklist test, since we need to establish whether this activity is beyond the control of blacklisting (as in loading as a dependency). The package can be uninstalled, if necessary. The file contains this install statement:

[aarf]

test of grotty hotel wifi at 150 meters and 50 meters with N modified luci268 and dlink140 N booster usb dongle attached, both failed to produce any trace of the signal.

[aarf]

usb dongle not attached in lupu527. note that ath5k does not appear on the "usbcore" line

[aarf]

clarify one step at a time

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