[SoaS] rt2x00 firmware

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if someone would like to package up a few more firmware
> blobs for Ralink wifi dongles. In particular, I'm interested in the
> RT2870 which, oddly enough, is used by Intel on the Classmate PC.
>
> Some background information on the kernel driver:
>
>  http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
> The Firmware is distributed by Ralink here:
>
>  http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2
>
> Click through the firmware link to view the license. The terms appear to
> satisfy the legal requirements imposed by the Fedora guidelines:
>
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Binary_Firmware
>
> If the rt2800usb driver included in official kernels really works,
> perhaps the kmod packages distributed by rpmfusion should be obsoleted.

Oh, I've had that to look at on my todo list once the 2.6.33 kernel
gets into rawhide which is the kernel that has the new upstream
driver. If the upstream driver needs a firmware I'll look at packaging
it up in the next couple of days.

Peter