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1. bigbrovar Ubuntu users , Linux

   how good is !linux support for Ralink RT3090BC4 wireless hardware about to get a laptop which ships one !ubuntu

   Tuesday, 17-Aug-10 20:48:12 UTC from Choqok
   • Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér

     @bigbrovar I can see that rt3090 is included in Squeeze's Ralink-firmware: packages.debian.org/squeeze/firmware-ralink

     Tuesday, 17-Aug-10 20:52:04 UTC
   • bigbrovar Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér

     @mjjzf That means it should work ootb on linux then? is it a Foss driver or a blob? anyway thanks for the info :)

     Tuesday, 17-Aug-10 20:57:07 UTC
   • Thomas Jollans

     @bigbrovar drivers for many ralink chipsets are in the kernel. If not, you can get drivers from ralink (tend to be quite decent AFAICT)

     Tuesday, 17-Aug-10 21:34:51 UTC
   • Thomas Jollans

     @bigbrovar I used ralink's own rt61linux drivers for a while before the rt2x00 drivers got merged into distro kernels. No complaints.

     Tuesday, 17-Aug-10 21:36:30 UTC
   • bigbrovar Thomas Jollans

     @freezombie thanks

     Tuesday, 17-Aug-10 21:40:43 UTC
   • Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér

     @bigbrovar That is actually an interesting question. ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 has two rt3090 drivers, one with GPL2 and one without.

     Wednesday, 18-Aug-10 14:56:25 UTC