Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:12:55 +0100 | From | Rui Santos <> | Subject | Re: [GIT]: Networking |
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Ivo van Doorn wrote: > On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, David Miller wrote: >>> There was going to be the addition of the ath9k wireless driver but >>> there was some fallout that is being worked on right now (linux/list.h >>> changes needed lkml review, ath9k driver triggered some gcc aborts, >>> all kinds of fun stuff :-) so hopefully it will make it in the next >>> pass. I tried to wait an extra day for it to be resolved, but that >>> was optimistic. >> Talking about wireless driver updates - has anybody looked at the RaLink >> wireless driver? It's in the newer EeePC's (901 and 1000), and it >> actually has a driver from the company which the comments make clear is >> GPLv2 too, no apparent oddness or anything: >> >> http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/2008_0708_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.7.0.0.tar.bz2 >> >> which admittedly apparently has some trivial problems (with a trivial >> patch as seen at >> >> http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=195429 >> >> I'd love to have that one working, since I have the hardware, and it's >> actually reasonable (much more so than the original EeePC, in fact). What >> channels should I go through? Is anybody working on integrating it >> already? > > Like the earlier rt2x00 drivers I am rewriting the driver as released by Ralink and > have put it in the rt2x00lib/mac80211 framework. Most of the code is currently done, and the > last part should be done this week. After that it is a matter of testing and comparing > register values with the Ralink driver for the last tweaks.
Hi Ivo,
I'm now a EeePc 901 owner. I'd also like to have wireless working on this machine. I'm available for any test you might want to undertake so, do not hesitate to ask.
> > I doubt the driver will be ready/stable for 2.6.28, but it should be ready for 2.6.29. > > Ivo > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > >
-- Regards, Rui Santos
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