Re: Driver for Mediatek MT7630E

[Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 09:16:02AM +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> > In a recent E-mail interchange
> > (http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=140238255916367&w=2), I was made aware
> > that this device is not currently being handled by any driver in the kernel,
> > but that there was a GitHub repo at https://github.com/anthonywong/mt7630.
> > That code modifies rt2800pci to operate the MT7630E, but it is quite
> > outdated.
> >
> > As a followup, I found such a device at a reasonable price on E-bay, and
> > ordered it. It should arrive next week. I also was able to find the firmware
> > in an RPM for SUSE SLE11, and a license allowing redistribution. Before I
> > start modifying rt2800pci for this new device, I want to be assured that
> > this modification is not currently being done by anyone in the rt2x00
> > project. There is too much to be done to duplicate effort.
> 
> I'm not doing anything in this regard at the moment. So I'm really glad if you
> are working on that!
> 
> CC'ed Stanislaw even though I don't think he's doing anything regarding the
> device you've mentioned.

Nope, I'm not working on adding support for new chips to rt2x00 at
present nor plan to work on that in the near future, though I have that
on my TODO list :-)

> > For interested readers, I have modified the GitHub code to compile using the
> > current wireless-testing kernel source. If there is sufficient interest, I
> > could set up a new GH repo for it as an interim measure with conditional
> > code allowing it to build on recent kernels (3.5+).

> Awesome news.
+1

Stanislaw