Comment 16 for bug 190515

Confirmed...after upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04 it defaults to about half the signal level and sets the bit rate 1M.

Running 'sudo iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M' increases the tranfer rate but the signal level is still a lot lower then in 7.10.

$ iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"freebsdap"
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.447 GHz Access Point: 00:14:6C:72:86:52
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
          Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
          Link Quality=45/100 Signal level=-60 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

$ sudo lspci -vvv
03:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 107f
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
 Region 0: Memory at 38000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
 Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-