On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:04:42AM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > Hi, > > In F-7 a decision was made to bundle in the rt2x00 wireless drivers > for Ralink cards. I contend this was a poor decision because, simply > put, they do not work. Not for any ralink chipset device I have tried > (and I've tried several). Upstream rt2x00 developers have also gone on > a 3 month development hiatus. See: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ > > But, upstream also maintains what they refer to as enhanced legacy > drivers - basically the open source drivers provided by Ralink but > polished to be more consistent with general use (eg. ripping out the > odd /etc/Wireless configuration tree, and placing firmware in > /lib/firmware). This work *really* well on all devices I have tried > for which rtx00 does not work. It's a hassle for an end user to > install them though, as it involves blacklisting the broken rtx00 > modules. Not a big deal, but it wrecks the "out of the box" > experience. > > So, please please consider bundling the rt2400, rt2500, rt2470, rt61 > and rt73 drivers for F-8 and ditching rt2x00 until they make it into > the upstream kernel. Fixing the broken drivers sounds like a better answer rather than shipping something that will never get upstream. Yes, wireless sucks right now, but running away from the problem isn't going to make it any better. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
