Re: Are these Ralink chips supported?

[Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Forest Bond wrote:
> 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?

I'm still struggling with the RX part. Code can be found at:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ivd/rt2x00.git;a=shortlog;h=experimental

Ivo