Bugzilla – Bug 481380
Feature request: Enable driver extension "ralink" in wpa_supplicant
Last modified: 2009-05-07 11:50:11 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.10 (like Gecko) SUSE Since version 0.6.0 wpa_supplicant offers the use of the driver extension "ralink" which can be used with the Ralink "legacy" drivers rt61 and rt73 respectively. Although most of the new rt2x00-drivers - which are using "wext"-extension with wpa_supplicant- are rather reliable since kernel 2.6.27/openSUSE 11.1, especially rt61pci seems to be problematic in some cases. Enabling the driver extension "ralink" by simply adding CONFIG_DRIVER_RALINK=y in .config-File for wpa_supplicant would give users a fallback if rt61pci or rt73usb fails. Of course, this possibility should be completely optional and the default should be "use drivers rt61pci and rt73usb with wpa-extension wext" but as implementing this fallback would be rather easy, I think it makes sense to offer this possibility to the users. Packages with those legacy-drivers (i.e. from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads - "Enhanced legacy drivers") could be provided within one of the inofficial OBS-repositories, for example this one http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/driver:/wireless/ which also contains madwifi-free as a "non officially supported but mature and known to work very well" alternative to officially supported drivers (ath5k/ath9k in this case). I could provide spec-files for rt61 and rt73 if there is interest in offering them via OBS. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Ok, I'll do that together with the next wpa_supplicant update. (In reply to comment #0) > I could provide spec-files for rt61 and rt73 if there is interest in offering > them via OBS. That'll be great. Do you want to maintain these in the driver:wireless repo?
(In reply to comment #1) > > That'll be great. Do you want to maintain these in the driver:wireless repo? Well, why not, but to be honest, I have to get familiar with OBS first, I am building and maintaining quite a few RPM-Packages (mainly drivers for WLAN-cards, however I never got around to build them in OBS, perhaps this is a good reason to start with that).
(In reply to comment #2) > mainly drivers for WLAN-cards, however I never got around to build them > in OBS, perhaps this is a good reason to start with that Yeah. Just mail me directly if you need assistance.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > mainly drivers for WLAN-cards, however I never got around to build them > > in OBS, perhaps this is a good reason to start with that > > Yeah. Just mail me directly if you need assistance. Thanks for your offer, until now, I had no problems. looks pretty straight forward and the first results are also already available. http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Akoellh/ The SPECs are still very basic, I will try to clean and polish them, but first priority is "stuff has to build". If I experience problems I cannot solve by "RTFM", I will consider your offer.
Updated wpa_supplicant in home:hschaa:Factory to 0.6.9. I'll commit it to Factory as soon as the build succeeded.
Done, wpa_supplicant 0.6.9 should pop up soon in Factory.