Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Driver for Ralink RT2790?

[chris]

Yea- ultimately the best solution is neither of the above. The best solution  
is to move away from x86. I think we would need a more coordinated effort to  
do that. We need 1. people with reverse engineering skills, 2. people with  
some development background/packaging skills (Rubén a.k.a. quidam is a good  
example), 3. demand, and 4. financial resources, 5. hardware engineers, 6.  
companies that are actually designing the chipsets cooperation, and 7.  
cooperation from a company capable of doing the actual manufacturing. I think  
we could probably muster up 1, 2, 5, possibly 6, and 7. 3,4 might be more  
challenging. I don't think there is going to be enough user demand. People  
are just too particular and want something very specific. That's just not  
going to be what they get. They're going to get whatever the most desired  
feature set is/and or what we're actually capable of doing given the above  
resources.