On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >>> I was hoping that the devs who worked hard to even make it part of the source rpm might be lurking on this mailing list and see my post :) >> >> I don't think anything special is done to make it part of our >> kernel .src.rpm, it's just in there because it's in the upstream kernel >> tarball :). I don't _think_ any of the Fedora kernel devs will jump to >> fix this driver. But hey, I'm happy if I'm wrong, I have an rt2860-based >> card and it'd be nice not to have to rely on an out-of-tree, >> not-in-Fedora driver! I'm almost sure you'd do better to contact lkml or >> one of the main committers directly, though. >> >> Actually, now I look at it, it appears the driver is developed as part >> of the serialmonkey project: >> >> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page >> >> which has links in the blue bar at the top for 'lists' and 'forum'. >> Those sound like good places to poke. > > Good luck with that! This driver has been in the process of being > re-written for well over a year, I've long given up hope. Its > unfortunate as its in alot of netbooks including all the atom based > eeePCs. Fortunately rpmfusion has one that works reasonably well (it > even suspends and resumes!) appart from spewing massive amount of > debug into /var/log/messages (if left on about half a gig a day). > > Peter > I maintain those drivers at RPMFusion. I will be happy beyond imagination when the staging drivers are marked stable. It would save me a lot of work, for it's not just rt2860, but also rt2870 and rt3070. I keep writing patches and hacks to them for almost every kernel update since Ralink is a bit slow with kernel updates. I'm glad they are working though :) Orcan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
