2008/8/29 Rui Santos [off-list ref]:

Ivo van Doorn wrote:

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On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, David Miller wrote:

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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.

EeePC is working, the patch series i submitted adds support for RF2425
chip which is included on EeePCs as far as i know (i have tested it on
an EeePC 900 surf, i think EeePC 901 has the same card) ;-)

We have some performance issues with ath5k but we are working on it
you can try and lock on b rates for better performance (we miss some
RF calibration stuff and CCK rates seem to perform better).

Happy wardriving ;-)

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