Wireless Drivers "Out of the box"

[Christian Bjälevik]

Yaniv Abir wrote:
> I was wondering if it's possible, now that Ralink has GPLed their 
> drivers (http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm), to include them in Hoary 
> so that they will work out of the box, or at least have a package 
> available in the repository. I'm asking this because Ralink's drivers 
> (at least the 2500 series, and I guess that the 2400 series too) isn't 
> easy to compile (or possible at all) on an Ubuntu systmen, for the 
> not-so-expert users, and because there are plenty of wirless cards out 
> there based on these chipsets.
I'm currently working on those drivers for Debian. I got lot's of 
studies going on right now, either way I would push for the coming 
rebuild of those driver. rt2x00 will support both rt2400 and rt2500. It 
will also bring in support for 802.11A according to the [1]website.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advances,
> 
> Yaniv Abir

[1] 
http://sourceforge.net/pm/task.php?group_id=107832&set=custom&group_project_id=36785&_assigned_to=0&_status=100&SUBMIT=Browse

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