From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 05:03:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C6116A4CE; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 05:03:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca (szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca [142.179.111.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA06543D31; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 05:03:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sandy@krvarr.bc.ca) Received: from szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j3Q53oYa043976; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:03:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sandy@szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca) Received: (from sandy@localhost) by szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca (8.13.1/8.12.11/Submit) id j3Q53ocg043973; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:03:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sandy) From: Sandy Rutherford MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17005.52150.590534.365619@szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:03:50 -0700 To: wpaul@freebsd.org (Bill Paul) In-Reply-To: <20050425171528.7EF8B16A4D3@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20050425171528.7EF8B16A4D3@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under Emacs 21.3.1 X-krvarr.bc.ca-MailScanner-Information: Please contact postmaster@krvarr.bc.ca for more information. X-krvarr.bc.ca-MailScanner: Not scanned: please contact postmaster@krvarr.bc.ca for details. X-krvarr.bc.ca-MailScanner-From: sandy@szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Too Evil, Too Furious X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 05:03:55 -0000 >>>>> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:15:28 +0000 (GMT), >>>>> wpaul@freebsd.org (Bill Paul) said: > - RayLink RT2500 wireless -- this one shows up on some PCI cards, but > I haven't had any luck finding one locally yet I assume that you mean RaLink (no "y"). Have you tried contacting the people at RaLink? I understand that they are very supportive of open source development. As a result, there is a Linux driver for both the rt2400 and rt2500. The project page is http://sourceforge.net/projects/rt2400. BTW, this driver seems solid. I flogged it hard with flood pings and it held up well. My rt2500 is a Belkin model F5D7010.PCMCIA card, which I have stuck in a laptop running Slackware. Unfort., I need it so I can't send it to you. I am not aware of any PCI cards using the rt2500. Given RaLink's willingness to work with the open source community, wouldn't the rt2500 be a better candidate for a native driver, rather than Project Evil? Sandy