H=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:references:in-reply-to Received: by with SMTP id v3so8677741wrp.2 ĭKIM-Signature: v=1 a=rsa-sha256 c=relaxed/relaxed Received: from (īy (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BBC63E61C Received: from ( )īy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8324BC636D6 This shows a huge willingness to learn how to deal with the kernel community, and they should be strongly encouraged and praised for this major change in attitude.X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 () onĪ In February 2011 Greg Kroah-Hartman praised Ralink for their change in attitude towards the Linux kernel developer community:Īs you can see in these posts, Ralink is sending patches for the upstream rt2x00 driver for their new chipsets, and not just dumping a huge, stand-alone tarball driver on the community, as they have done in the past. Ralink allows the use and redistribution of firmware, but does not allow its modification. Current Ralink chipsets require a firmware to be loaded. While Linux drivers for the older RT2500 chipsets are no longer updated by Ralink, these are now being maintained by Serialmonkey's rt2x00 project. (See Comparison of open-source wireless drivers.) Ralink provides GNU General Public License-licensed (GPL) drivers for the Linux kernel. This includes datasheets of their PCI and PCIe chipsets, but for now does not include documentation of their system on a chip used in Wireless routers.ĭrivers for MediaTek Ralink wireless network interface controllers were mainlined into the Linux kernel version 2.6.24.
Ralink provides some documentation without a non-disclosure agreement.
An example of an adapter is the Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector which uses the Ralink RT2570 chipset to allow a Nintendo DS or Wii to be internetworked via a home computer. Ralink chipsets are used in various consumer-grade routers made by Gigabyte Technology, Linksys, D-Link, Asus and Belkin, as well as Wi-Fi adaptors for USB, PCI, ExpressCard, PC Card, and PCI Express interfaces.
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