Re: what is the states of rt2800 driver?

[Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>]

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 23:18 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2008, Mattias Nissler wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 19:37 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > > On Monday 22 September 2008, Xu, Martin wrote:
> > > > Hi:
> > > > I am the engineer from intel, and we are working on Moblin project(
> > > > www.moblin.org). Now we work on eeepc901 platform. The rt2860 wireless
> > > > device is used by the platform. We hope the device driver can be
> > > > supported in the kernel mainline.
> > > > Could you please tell me the states of the device driver? Do you have
> > > > schedule on it? 
> > > 
> > > Nothing has changed since my last announcement to the linux-wireless list
> > > regarding the rt2800 drivers.
> > > That means that the drivers are not ready, and I have abandonded all schedules
> > > which could indicate when the first test version of the driver can be released.
> > > 
> > > Mattias Nissler has joined the rt2800 development party, so I really hope
> > > he has some fresh ideas an how to get the driver development forward again.
> > 
> > Indeed, I started poking around today. Ivo, do you have version of the
> > legacy rt2870 usb driver that compiles and works on recent development
> > kernels?
> 
> I only managed to compile it on 2.6.25 (but haven't tried hard to get it working
> for 2.6.26 and higher), is that recent enough?

Hm, I'm trying to get it to run current rt2x00.git/experimental, so I
can directly compare I/O that's going to the device without rebooting.
I'm having some trouble with the threads used in the Ralink driver, but
I think I'll have that sorted out shortly.

Mattias