Subject: Re: what is the states of rt2800 driver?
From: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
To: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: "Xu, Martin" <martin.xu@intel.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	"Selbak, Rolla N" <rolla.n.selbak@intel.com>
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:01:54 +0200
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On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 19:37 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2008, Xu, Martin wrote:
> > Hi:
> > I am the engineer from intel, and we are working on Moblin project(
> > www.moblin.org). Now we work on eeepc901 platform. The rt2860 wireless
> > device is used by the platform. We hope the device driver can be
> > supported in the kernel mainline.
> > Could you please tell me the states of the device driver? Do you have
> > schedule on it? 
> 
> Nothing has changed since my last announcement to the linux-wireless list
> regarding the rt2800 drivers.
> That means that the drivers are not ready, and I have abandonded all schedules
> which could indicate when the first test version of the driver can be released.
> 
> Mattias Nissler has joined the rt2800 development party, so I really hope
> he has some fresh ideas an how to get the driver development forward again.

Indeed, I started poking around today. Ivo, do you have version of the
legacy rt2870 usb driver that compiles and works on recent development
kernels?

Mattias