Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:58:36 +0300 | From | "Nick Kossifidis" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT]: Networking |
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2008/8/29 Rui Santos <rsantos@grupopie.com>: > Ivo van Doorn wrote: >> On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, David Miller wrote: >>>> 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 ;-)
-- GPG ID: 0xD21DB2DB As you read this post global entropy rises. Have Fun ;-) Nick
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