Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 15:38:20 +0200 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: michael <michael.copeland@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rt2870 wireless chipset Message-ID: <3a142e750904040638p5714282cwab08835d00ea4dde@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49D752D2.4090902@gmail.com> References: <49D752D2.4090902@gmail.com>
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On 4/4/09, michael <michael.copeland@gmail.com> wrote: > is this chip or will this chip be covered under the rum module? if it > has not already been started on, i've noticed from looking at the ralink > opensource driver that it seems be structured nearly identical to the > rt73 driver. eg: its used in the version 3 of the linksys WUSB54GC > compact wireless adapter. version 1 was the rt73 which already works > with the rum module. what i'm asking is, since the two linux drivers > seem nearly identical; would it be very difficult for me to copy the rum > driver source to another directory and make the changes evident in the > linux driver(mainly dealing with loading the rt2870 firmware file) in > the copied rum driver? What about non evident things :-), Just go ahead, but note that if you make some terrible mistake that you can say goodbye to chip. -- Paul
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