On Monday 18 August 2008, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > Hi, > > Just a small information mail regarding the current status of the rt2800 drivers, > The initial schedule was that last week or at the latest this week, the initial > version of the rt2800 drivers would be released. > > But as you might have noticed, this has not happened, which means the project > is behind schedule. The current status is that rt2800usb is capable of > receiving frames (only when using the legacy driver first), and rt2800pci isn't > capable of anything yet. > > I am currently putting all focus on rt2800usb because the queue management > is the easiest for that driver, and having that driver working will help in debugging > rt2800pci later. > > The fact that rt2800usb is capable of receiving frames after the legacy driver > has been loaded first, means that I am missing one or two instructions which > must be send to the hardware before it will kick in. Unfortunately I have made > little progress in tracking that required instruction. :( Well found it. Apparently the frames are only received when the BSSID is written to the device. I currently get only 1 scan result now (the BSSID written to the register), but in monitor mode I can see 2 AP's and a bunch of data going through the air. Well this is at least a start in the right direction, hopefully TX will work soon as well. Ivo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
