Re: rt2870 wireless chipset

On 4/4/09, michael <michael.copeland_at_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