Bugzilla Bug 98574

RT2500STA.dat in the Modules/ directory of the source tarball is in DOS format.
 I  reported my suspicions to Mark at serialmonkey and he confirmed it.  Here's
the thread - http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=96 .  He's
corrected the problem in CVS, but the beta tarballs still contain the DOS
formated config file RT2500STA.dat.

To correct the problem for the ebuild, RT2500STA.dat could be manually extracted
from the CVS tarball and added the the rt2500 ebuilds' "files/" directory and
have the ebuild copy the file from there upon installation.

The new beta tarballs will contain the fix.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  emerge rt2500
2.  Try to configure the module by manually editing RT2500STA.dat file
3.  modprobe rt2500
4.  config file isn't correctly parsed by system because it is a DOS format file.

Actual Results:  
Config file isn't correctly parsed by system because it is a DOS format file.

iwconfig shows:

eth0      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

"         RT2500 Wireless  ESSID:"homenet
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.437 GHz  Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
          RTS thr=2312 B   Fragment thr=2312 B
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality:60  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Notice the first line of the wireless section.  Strange use of quotes and no ra0
interface.

Expected Results:  
Passed the manually edited RT2500STA.dat config file thru "dos2unix" and voila
it works:

eth0      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

ra0       RT2500 Wireless  ESSID:"homenet"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.437 GHz  Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
          RTS thr=2312 B   Fragment thr=2312 B
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality=81/100  Signal level:-202 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

thanks, fixed