[linuxkernelnewbies] Main Page - Rt2x00Wiki

[Peter Teoh]

http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Main Page From Rt2x00Wiki Contents [hide] 1 Welcome to the rt2x00 Project 1.1 License information 2 Latest news 2.1 Project reorganization - March 2009 2.2 Developers meeting log - August 2008 2.3 rt2x00 featured @ linux.com - May 2008 2.4 rt2x00 enters mainline kernel - January 2008 2.5 Older news 3 RSS 4 Thanks [edit] Welcome to the rt2x00 Project This project is a development effort to provide free, stable and feature rich Linux drivers for wireless 802.11b/g/i cards based on the following Ralink chipsets: rt2400, rt2500, rt2570, rt61 and rt73. We support next-generation rt2x00 drivers (included mainline Linux kernel). Support for the enhanced RaLink legacy drivers will end April 24th 2009. They provide all the features you could expect, such as encryption, traffic monitoring, frame injection and more. Please feel free to browse the history of the project, read the documentation or just jump on in and grab the latest version of the source available from the downloads page. If you have problems and the documentation isn't helpful, thenthen roll over to the forums or mailing lists and post a question to the community. For more detail see our history page and our roadmap page. [edit] License information The driver code we make available here is released under the GPL. However, some drivers require firmware to be loaded to the device. This firmware is redistributable but not modifiable, since it has a specific Firmware license. [edit] Latest news [edit] Project reorganization - March 2009 This April the rt2x00 project celebrates its 5th anniversary, and we do that by doing a big project reorganization. By the end of April the Legacy drivers will no longer be maintained or supported by this project. From that moment only the in-kernel drivers will be developed and supported by this project. The rt2x00 drivers have been long enough in the kernel, and all major distributions have switched over to those drivers. This has reduced the userbase of the legacy drivers and we feel the time has come to remove them completely from this project. We have discussed this with Ralink and they are working together with the rt2x00 project to make the drivers for future hardware ready for kernel integration. This change has an impact on our project team as well, at the moment we are with 8 people but after the reorganization so far only 4 people indicated they wanted to remain active as project member. To make the transistion as complete as possible we will close down everything related to the Legacy drivers. This means that the sourceforge project on which this mailinglist is hosted will be closed down as well. We have already opened a new mailinglist for rt2x00 general information about this list can be found at: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/mailman/listinfo/users_rt2x00.serialmonkey.com Reorganization schedule: March 28 Initial warning to all users about reorganization April 3 From now on all new topics on the legacy forums will receive a response regarding the pending halt of support All support requests for the legacy drivers on the mailinglist will get a default response about the pending halt of support All Sourceforge trackers for the rt2400 project will get a response about the pending halt of support April 10 Mailinglists rt2400-general, rt2400-devel, rt2400-commit will no longer accept new subscribers, posting will be restricting to subscribers only From now on the rt2x00.serialmonkey.com wiki will be purged from Legacy driver documentation. Nightly tarballs for the legacy drivers will no longer be generated. April 24 All legacy forums on rt2x00.serialmonkey.com will be closed Mailinglists rt2400-general, rt2400-devel, rt2400-commit will be closed. CVS access to drivers will be closed Sourceforge rt2400 project will be marked as closed. Legacy drivers will no longer be part of the rt2x00 project At the moment there are no people willing to start a completely new project for the legacy drivers. If somebody steps up in the coming month to take over support of the drivers we will assist him with setting up the new project and move all Legacy driver documentation from our Wiki and forums to this new project. Ivo van Doorn rt2x00 Project Administrator [edit] Developers meeting log - August 2008 Hi All, We did a quick a developer's meeting today. Check out what was discussed, in the Meetings link. Luis Correia rt2x00 Project Administrator [edit] rt2x00 featured @ linux.com - May 2008 Hi All, Last April, linux.com has made an article about our project, here's the link: http://www.linux.com/feature/132701 Luis Correia rt2x00 Project Administrator [edit] rt2x00 enters mainline kernel - January 2008 Hi All, two days ago, January 24th, Linux Kernel 2.6.24 was released. This is the first mainline kernel that includes (sadly a somewhat buggy) rt2x00 release. Our rt2x00 driver has reached a broader audience, and we all wish to congratulate the developers and most importantly all of our users who provided numerous bug reports and even fixes. Now, lets continue to work towards a stabler driver! Luis Correia rt2x00 Project Administrator [edit] Older news Older news can be found in the archive [edit] RSS We also provide a couple of RSS feeds for our users. The News Feed will give you up-to-date info on any file releases or major happenings with the project. The Forum Feed will give you a direct feed from all the forums on our website. And finally, BETA Testing Feed will give you a direct feed from our rt2x00 BETA testing forum. [edit] Thanks Our deepest thanks go out to the following groups and individuals Ralink for providing the chipsets and placing their source-code under the GPL license The developers for their hard work and sleepless nights Minitar for making the initial push to get the source under GPL license All the contributors that have helped along the way Hardware vendors that have donated rt2x00 based cards to help development Hardware donations not related to rt2x00 based cards Retrieved from "http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" This page has been accessed 1,406,998 times. This page was last modified 15:03, 12 April 2009. Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.