On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Forest Bond [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:14:10AM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:

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On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Forest Bond wrote:

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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.