Bluetooth vs. BlueZ project [LWN.net]

Bluetooth vs. BlueZ project

Posted Dec 15, 2005 11:10 UTC (Thu) by wookey (subscriber, #5501)
In reply to: Bluetooth vs. BlueZ project by walterh
Parent article: "Just works with Linux"

Indeed, and especially as the reason given appears to make no sense (as described on the page the artivcle linked) I don't understand why Mr Holtmann didn't just tell them to get lost. But still, if he doesn't feel able to be bolshy for whatever reason, then clearly somone else should put the list up. This sort of thing is too useful to be lost to the craziness of the BQA.

And whilst I am here another really useful hardware list is this one:
http://ralink.rapla.net/ (all the ralink-based devices for USB, PCI and PCMCIA and as ralink are FS-friendly they all work).

It is a real pain when you want to buy some new hardware (I'm currently looking for a DVB-T receiver) and you have to spend _ages_ on the net finding out what is and isn't supported. A comprehensive database would be a huge boon.

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Bluetooth vs. BlueZ project - internet archive to the rescuee

Posted Dec 17, 2005 16:36 UTC (Sat) by nealmcb (guest, #20740) [Link]

Here is the 2004-11-14 version:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041114015211/http://www.holt...

Ralink - not quite supported

Posted Dec 18, 2005 0:49 UTC (Sun) by midg3t (subscriber, #30998) [Link]

Be careful with Ralink-chipped devices. I bought one and am still waiting for a driver that works on my big-endian laptop.

Ralink - not quite supported

Posted Dec 21, 2005 8:38 UTC (Wed) by wilck (subscriber, #29844) [Link]

Another ralink caveat: the user-level interface is different than for most other wireless devices. For example, WPA is handled through wpa_supplicant for most wireless cards, but not for ralink.

This is unfortunate, because distos rely on a homogeneous user-level interface with their configuration tools. Getting WPA to work with ralink card and SuSE 9.2 required a fair amount of hacking, while it would have been easy with any card supported by wpa_supplicant.

Ralink - not quite supported

Posted Dec 26, 2005 15:47 UTC (Mon) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

These criticisms only apply to the old rt2400/rt2500 drivers that developed from Ralink's original driver release. The maintaners are currently working on rt2x00, a rewrite of the driver that uses the new unified iee80211 stack, and so will hopefully end up in the Linux kernel itself.

The project released its third test release last week; if you have a Ralink device and some time to spare, please try and see if you can get the driver to associate with your access point. Details at http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=693