On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Forest Bond <forest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:14:10AM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote: >> On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Forest Bond wrote: >> > I'm having a hard time figuring out if the following wireless chips are >> > supported: >> > >> > * RT2770 + RT2720 >> >> I *think* this is the rt2870 driver. The in-kernel driver is under development > > Okay, the RT2870 driver from Ralink works with this device, but it seems to be a > bit quirky: > > * The device has to be brought up and down a few times before NetworkManager > sees it. I'm not sure what NetworkManager is cueing off of. > > * I was unable to get the thing to associate and come up using > iwconfig/ifconfig. Might have been my range on that AP, though, since I was > shooting for an unencrypted network that is a not the closest network in my > building. > > * Usual odd bits with vendor drivers like odd build system subtleties and > seemingly unnecessary configuration files (does anyone really care to fiddle > with those, or doesn't everyone just want things to work with the standard > configuration mechanisms like I do?). > > Is there an effort to move this driver in-tree? The license is GPL. Thats what Ivo is doing, port the driver to rt2x00 to make it acceptable for merging. -- 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
