Ralink RT2700E driver

Ralink RT2700E driver

[Artur Szymczak]

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Hi,
why WiFi cards with ralink chipset RT2700E are not supported by linux
kernel?
I found on ralink homepage driver for this chipset
http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html (2860). And it
works. Why it isn't added to kernel?

Best regards


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Re: Ralink RT2700E driver

[J.R. Mauro]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Artur Szymczak <artur.szymczak@altkom.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
> why WiFi cards with ralink chipset RT2700E are not supported by linux
> kernel?
> I found on ralink homepage driver for this chipset
> http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html (2860). And it
> works. Why it isn't added to kernel?
>
> Best regards
>
>

A driver for the 2860 has been added to Greg Kroah-Hartman's staging
tree. You can obtain this tree, a set of Quilt patches, here:
http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/patches.git/  (If
you need help getting the patchset, email me personally and I'll walk
you though it)

Now there do appear to be several other drivers on the webpage you
mentioned, and I'm not sure if all of those others are supported. Greg
could probably clear that up. But the 2860 support is coming.

~J.R.