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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:18:59 +0200
From: drago01 <drago01@gmail.com>
To: "Forest Bond" <forest@alittletooquiet.net>
Subject: Re: Are these Ralink chips supported?
Cc: "Ivo van Doorn" <ivdoorn@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net> 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.