moblin, rt2860, and unhappiness
Hi linux-wireless,
This is my first posting, so please pardon me if I break any rule.
A bit a background, last spring in a bout of unemployment, i wanted to find a new development direction.
i had been working with a company providing wireless products (Danger), and wanted to continue that direction using mobile linux as a platform.
I subscribed to the moblin developers list, bought an Asus EeePC 1000 with xandros installed and began my development project.
I chose to keep the xandros os in the netbook as its wireless was the first working wireless i've had. i booted the various moblin pre-beta releases via the thumbdrive and wasnt too worried when the wireless didnt work on the moblin os; after all it was pre-beta.
as the xandros wireless worked, i felt confident that the good folks at Intel would make my netbook wireless work by the time beta rolled around.
it was my error in assuming an Intel cpu included a Intel wireless chipset, instead i found i had an rt2860.
as beta came and went with still no wireless joy, i started probing deeper and found the ralink rt2860 support wasnt going to be covered in the moblin project work.
so here i am with a netbook that cant get to the net with the os of my choice. Much unhappiness!
i have learned that the driver source is available and i plan to track that down.
i have also been toying with the idea of surgery; putting a Intel wireless chipset in the eeepc, but the only article I've found on that topic is a bit much for a software only geek.
I like the eeepc and want to use it with wireless.
i figure my best case is to find a way to get the ralink driver working with the moblin os, but at least one person has failed at that attempt to far.
a fall back position is to go with a fedora os where i could get the driver working there (if it doesn't already).
so, finally, my query to this august group; given this sob story, what is your wisdom on the topic?
is my goal to get the rt2860 working on moblin a gesture in futility?
does it make sense to bail and go on to FC? i use FC for my desktop and work so i prefer it over ubuntu ,...
Suggestions? tia, jackc...
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i figure my best case is to find a way to get the ralink driver working with the moblin os, but at least one person has failed at that attempt to far.
a fall back position is to go with a fedora os where i could get the driver working there (if it doesn't already).
so, finally, my query to this august group; given this sob story, what is your wisdom on the topic?
The rt2800pci driver has recently been merged into wireless-testing git tree, that driver isn't working perfectly yet, but that is the driver where all development effort should go into.
You can find the rt2800pci driver in thedrivers/net/wireless/rt2x00 folder.
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is my goal to get the rt2860 working on moblin a gesture in futility?
Absolutely not. :)
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does it make sense to bail and go on to FC? i use FC for my desktop and work so i prefer it over ubuntu ,...
This is not a distribution problem, but simply a lack of a good driver in the kernel itself.
Ivo
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Hi linux-wireless,
This is my first posting, so please pardon me if I break any rule.
A bit a background, last spring in a bout of unemployment, i wanted to find a new development direction.
i had been working with a company providing wireless products (Danger), and wanted to continue that
direction using mobile linux as a platform.I subscribed to the moblin developers list, bought an Asus EeePC 1000 with xandros installed and began
my development project.I chose to keep the xandros os in the netbook as its wireless was the first working wireless
i've had. i booted the various moblin pre-beta releases via the thumbdrive and wasnt too
worried when the wireless didnt work on the moblin os; after all it was pre-beta.as the xandros wireless worked, i felt confident that the good folks at Intel would make my netbook
wireless work by the time beta rolled around.it was my error in assuming an Intel cpu included a Intel wireless chipset, instead i found i had an rt2860.
as beta came and went with still no wireless joy, i started probing deeper and found the ralink
rt2860 support wasnt going to be covered in the moblin project work.so here i am with a netbook that cant get to the net with the os of my choice. Much unhappiness!
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i have learned that the driver source is available and i plan to track that down.
i have also been toying with the idea of surgery; putting a Intel wireless chipset in the eeepc,
but the only article I've found on that topic is a bit much for a software only geek.
Actually, it's not tricky at all - you will need to get an Intel 3945/4965/5100/5150/5300/5350 PCI-Express Mini Card (or Half-Mini Card
if your Eee PC has that one - compare the card in your system with the cards on http://embeddedsystemnews.com/images/embedded/pciexpressminihalfminicards.jpg),
and swap the Ralink card in your machine with the Intel card. It
should be plug-and-play. (And it's not limited to Intel - you can use
any PCIE Mini Card.) You can find plenty of these cards on eBay, such
as http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250512964837.
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I like the eeepc and want to use it with wireless.
i figure my best case is to find a way to get the ralink driver working with the moblin os,
but at least one person has failed at that attempt to far.a fall back position is to go with a fedora os where i could get the driver working there
(if it doesn't already).so, finally, my query to this august group; given this sob story, what is your wisdom on the topic?
is my goal to get the rt2860 working on moblin a gesture in futility?
does it make sense to bail and go on to FC? i use FC for my desktop and work so i prefer it over ubuntu ,...
Suggestions? tia, jackc...
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