Dan Thurman <dant <at> cdkkt.com> writes: > I obtained the rt2870 software from: > http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html > and the specific file I downloaded was: RT2870USB(RT2870/RT2870) > <http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/2008_0528_RT2870_Linux_STA_v1.3.0.0.tar.bz2> > > From what I can tell, it is an Open-Source Organization and I > did not see any licensing in regards to the code i.e. I do not > think I recall having to click on any license agreements. It is GPL (version 2 or later), but unfortunately the driver appears to be using either the legacy WiFi stack or a custom one, not the mac80211 stack which all new drivers are supposed to use. (They state in the README file that they're still supporting RHL 7.3. :-/ Of course there's no mac80211 in such ancient kernels.) It is not based on the mac80211-based rt2x00 driver. What this means for you is that: * the driver probably cannot be merged as is into the upstream kernel, so you will have to either build it yourself or rely on a third-party repository and * it might be hard to build the driver with current kernels. On the other hand, not many manufacturers release drivers under the GPL, so I should probably not complain too much. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
