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wireless drivers

Posted Nov 17, 2005 6:41 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
Parent article: 4K stacks - again

I'm just looking forward to rt2500 support getting into the mainline
kernel. It's one of the few 54mb chipsets that has had a GPL driver (and
the OpenBSD crowd, sticklers for hardware openness, recommends those
cards), but so far it has to be added separately.

Hey, if a Broadcom driver is coming, that would have some positive
implications for Linksys WRT54G boxes. But I get no such host when
trying to link to http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/.

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wireless drivers

Posted Nov 17, 2005 13:00 UTC (Thu) by gravious (guest, #7662) [Link]

I second that.

I have a d-link dwl-g122 (h/w ver. b1) 802.11g usb thingy which uses one of those ralink rt2500 chip things and it would be sweet if this got into the mainline kernel - especially before Dapper is released. The source is here serialmonkey. Hope this helps somebody.

regards,
Anto

wireless drivers

Posted Nov 18, 2005 14:35 UTC (Fri) by gravious (guest, #7662) [Link]

Aha,

To reply to myself. I just checked... The rt2500usb driver is in 2.6.15 in Dapper. I don't know when this went in, odd, I've been following the announcements quite closely. I tried it out and didn't get it working so it's back to 2.6.12 and ndiswrapper for now. Maybe somebody more masochistic and not with exam deadlines looming might give it a go. (Am I the only person who hates iwconfig? It is terse to the point of mute. I've also got that dropped connection problem using dhcp over wireless that people are complaining about with Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu and elsewhere. It is a pain.)

regards,
Anto