Re: Are these Ralink chips supported?

[Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net>]

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Hi,

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:18:59PM +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Thats what Ivo is doing, port the driver to rt2x00 to make it
> acceptable for merging.

Okay, sorry if I misunderstood.  Is this driver usable and, if so, where can the
code be found?

Thanks,
Forest
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Forest Bond
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