Re: Ralink RT2500 54g wireless for inclusion?
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 03:36:06AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Nick Hill a écrit :
> >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 already a debian package that includes the rt2500
> sources. This driver works pretty well and is in GPL, but does not
> respect kernel standards (code organisation, private ioctl, access to
> the filesystem from the module, ...), so it will never be merged in the
> kernel.
>
> However, some cool guys are developping a new driver from scratch with
> some help from ralink. See http://rt2400.sourceforge.net . This driver
> is called rt2x00 as it supports rt2400, rt2500, rt2560 and rt2600 chips.
> This driver is coded cleanly, but still does not work very well. However
> the netdev kernel guys already said they will accept this driver
> directly in the kernel when it will be working correctly.
>
> Giving the speed at which the rt2x00 driver is developped, I am pretty
> sure the driver will be merged in the kernel before the etch release.
Awsome, I think the best thing to do with regards to this bug
is find out what needs to be done to make that happen, and if
possible, help out.
--
Horms
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