From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from gate.linuxlighthouse.com ([63.249.90.144]:40315 "EHLO linuxlighthouse.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754952AbZJRSAt (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:00:49 -0400 Received: from ws.linuxlighthouse.com (ws.linuxlighthouse.com [192.168.2.20]) (authenticated bits=0) by linuxlighthouse.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9IHf8uJ031813 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:41:08 -0700 Message-ID: <4ADB5334.3070109@linuxlighthouse.com> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:41:08 -0700 From: jack craig MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: moblin, rt2860, and unhappiness Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi linux-wireless, This is my first posting, so please pardon me if I break any rule. A bit a background, last spring in a bout of unemployment, i wanted to find a new development direction. i had been working with a company providing wireless products (Danger), and wanted to continue that direction using mobile linux as a platform. I subscribed to the moblin developers list, bought an Asus EeePC 1000 with xandros installed and began my development project. I chose to keep the xandros os in the netbook as its wireless was the first working wireless i've had. i booted the various moblin pre-beta releases via the thumbdrive and wasnt too worried when the wireless didnt work on the moblin os; after all it was pre-beta. as the xandros wireless worked, i felt confident that the good folks at Intel would make my netbook wireless work by the time beta rolled around. it was my error in assuming an Intel cpu included a Intel wireless chipset, instead i found i had an rt2860. as beta came and went with still no wireless joy, i started probing deeper and found the ralink rt2860 support wasnt going to be covered in the moblin project work. so here i am with a netbook that cant get to the net with the os of my choice. Much unhappiness! i have learned that the driver source is available and i plan to track that down. i have also been toying with the idea of surgery; putting a Intel wireless chipset in the eeepc, but the only article I've found on that topic is a bit much for a software only geek. I like the eeepc and want to use it with wireless. i figure my best case is to find a way to get the ralink driver working with the moblin os, but at least one person has failed at that attempt to far. a fall back position is to go with a fedora os where i could get the driver working there (if it doesn't already). so, finally, my query to this august group; given this sob story, what is your wisdom on the topic? is my goal to get the rt2860 working on moblin a gesture in futility? does it make sense to bail and go on to FC? i use FC for my desktop and work so i prefer it over ubuntu ,... Suggestions? tia, jackc... -- jack craig jackc@LinuxLightHouse.com 831-684-1375 (Office) 831-596-6924 (cell) IM: jackcraigaptos (AIM) _________________________________ This email has been ClamScanned ! www.LinuxLightHouse.com