Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:57:03 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [GIT]: Networking |
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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?
(Ivo van Doorn added to Cc, since he seems the go-to guy for the rt2x00 driver in the tree, and may have some input).
Linus
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