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Subject: Re: Driver for Mediatek MT7630E
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If I remember correct for SLE11, that was from MediaTek-Ralink, they
did it based on SLE11 kernel. The code is ouch but could work. That
was a nightmare when I tried to port...can't imagine that.... :(

2014-06-12 20:44 GMT+08:00 Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 09:16:02AM +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>> > In a recent E-mail interchange
>> > (http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=140238255916367&w=2), I was made aware
>> > that this device is not currently being handled by any driver in the kernel,
>> > but that there was a GitHub repo at https://github.com/anthonywong/mt7630.
>> > That code modifies rt2800pci to operate the MT7630E, but it is quite
>> > outdated.
>> >
>> > As a followup, I found such a device at a reasonable price on E-bay, and
>> > ordered it. It should arrive next week. I also was able to find the firmware
>> > in an RPM for SUSE SLE11, and a license allowing redistribution. Before I
>> > start modifying rt2800pci for this new device, I want to be assured that
>> > this modification is not currently being done by anyone in the rt2x00
>> > project. There is too much to be done to duplicate effort.
>>
>> I'm not doing anything in this regard at the moment. So I'm really glad if you
>> are working on that!
>>
>> CC'ed Stanislaw even though I don't think he's doing anything regarding the
>> device you've mentioned.
>
> Nope, I'm not working on adding support for new chips to rt2x00 at
> present nor plan to work on that in the near future, though I have that
> on my TODO list :-)
>
>> > For interested readers, I have modified the GitHub code to compile using the
>> > current wireless-testing kernel source. If there is sufficient interest, I
>> > could set up a new GH repo for it as an interim measure with conditional
>> > code allowing it to build on recent kernels (3.5+).
>
>> Awesome news.
> +1
>
> Stanislaw
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