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Ralink - not quite supported
Ralink - not quite supported
Posted Dec 21, 2005 8:38 UTC (Wed) by wilck (subscriber, #29844)In reply to: Ralink - not quite supported by midg3t
Parent article: "Just works with Linux"
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.
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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