Re: Are these Ralink chips supported?

[Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net>]

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Hi,

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:14:10AM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Forest Bond wrote:
> > I'm having a hard time figuring out if the following wireless chips are
> > supported:
> > 
> >  * RT2770 + RT2720
> 
> I *think* this is the rt2870 driver. The in-kernel driver is under development

Okay, the RT2870 driver from Ralink works with this device, but it seems to be a
bit quirky:

 * The device has to be brought up and down a few times before NetworkManager
   sees it.  I'm not sure what NetworkManager is cueing off of.

 * I was unable to get the thing to associate and come up using
   iwconfig/ifconfig.  Might have been my range on that AP, though, since I was
   shooting for an unencrypted network that is a not the closest network in my
   building.

 * Usual odd bits with vendor drivers like odd build system subtleties and
   seemingly unnecessary configuration files (does anyone really care to fiddle
   with those, or doesn't everyone just want things to work with the standard
   configuration mechanisms like I do?).

Is there an effort to move this driver in-tree?  The license is GPL.

Thanks,
Forest
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Forest Bond
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