rt2860 wireless chipset not supported despite having public module source

[mmxbass]

The Ralink rt2860sta wireless chipset devices are still not supported despite public GPL'd Linux drivers being publicly available at http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html

I'm not entirely sure what is the problem at this point. The supplied code on the website compiles and works perfectly fine when you do it yourself.

It's GPL'd code, it works. What exactly are we waiting for?

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

This was included in the mainline kernel in 2.6.24. As of 2.6.25.10 it's still experimental... You should have a kernel module called rt2x00lib.ko in your system...

from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page :

rt2x00 enters mainline kernel - January 2008

Hi All,

two days ago, January 24th, Linux Kernel 2.6.24 was released. This is the first mainline kernel that includes (sadly a somewhat buggy) rt2x00 release.

Our rt2x00 driver has reached a broader audience, and we all wish to congratulate the developers and most importantly all of our users who provided numerous bug reports and even fixes.

Now, lets continue to work towards a stabler driver!

Luis Correia
rt2x00 Project Administrator

[mmxbass (mmxbass)]

Ask the rt2x00 people (on the forums for example) and they have said on multiple occasions that the 2860 is NOT supported by their module.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi mmxbass,

I'm going to mark this as a duplicate of bug 210725 which has already been assigned to the kernel team. Please continue to follow any future progress about this driver with that bug report. Thanks.