Re: Ralink RT2500 54g wireless for inclusion?
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 23:31 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:23:33PM +0100, Nick Hill wrote:
> > I understand Ralink are the only vendor to have a 54g wireless chipset
> > which does not require the host to upload (non-free) firmware.
> >
> > Ralink have also released software and interface specs, and released a
> > driver under the GPL.
> >
> > The Ralink RT2500 kernel module is included by default with the kernel
> > released in Ubuntu 5.10.
> >
> > This appears to be the only 54g chipset Debian could currently support
> > 'out of the box'.
> >
> > Given that the ralink seem particularly free software friendly, the
> > chipset is cheap and common, and the driver is widely understood to work
> > well, are there any good reasons not to include the driver module with
> > the standard debian kernel?
>
> Well, there is a politic of allowing only stuff that goes upstream, which is a
> politic i am not really sure i am all that fond of, but well,
Though it could very well exist as a kernel-module package until it is
available upstream, if someone is willing to package it.
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