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Date:      Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:03:50 -0700
From:      Sandy Rutherford <sandy@krvarr.bc.ca>
To:        wpaul@freebsd.org (Bill Paul)
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Too Evil, Too Furious
Message-ID:  <17005.52150.590534.365619@szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20050425171528.7EF8B16A4D3@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20050425171528.7EF8B16A4D3@hub.freebsd.org>

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>>>>> 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



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