Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT]: Networking | Date | Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:22:02 +0200 | From | Ivo van Doorn <> |
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On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > > > I looked at the driver and got it working. However my 901 seems to have an > > issue with the antennas. I can do scans, but associating with an access point > > or even thinking about transmit keeps failing. Even with external antennas > > this still doesn't work. So either my EeePC is broken or it needs some ACPI > > magic to enable it. Personally I think mine is broken since the PCIe hotplug > > stuff works for the wireless card and that seems to be their way of doing the > > rfkill. > > Yeah, the rfkill literally makes the chip go away from the PCI lists, it > seems. But your problems can certainly be somehow driver-related, I > haven't actually _tested_ that thing at all, I got the machine just as the > merge window started, so I've had no time to even play with it. > > > The driver itself is painful. It is full of ifdefs and some crazy build magic. > > The integrated (to some degree optional) WPA code is pretty ugly. It has also > > a full set of iwpriv commands to do all the settings etc. :( > > Well, it's also trying to support both 2.4.x and 2.6 etc. Yeah, that is > horrid. At the same time, I can't say that the "rewrite it entirely" > approach of the previous-gen cards has worked very well either, since that > seems to have just perpetuated the problems. It would be great to try to > educate them, but I'm not finding even an email address in the sources.
I've send a mail to Ralink with a request if they could step away from the "port the windows driver to linux" idea and get the Linux driver "kernel-ready" early on. That won't solve the problem now, but hopefully it does mean the drivers for the next generation can go into the kernel sooner.
> Oh well. I can't really complain, since just the fact that they bothered > to even make sources available still makes them pretty responsible people, > even if the sources are pretty dang ugly. > > All the capitalization etc makes me think they are all old DOS and Windows > programmers. UCHAR and USHORT indeed, along with CamelCase functions.
Well it basically is the Windows driver ported to Linux. ;)
Ivo
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