Hardware sucks

[Ben Hutchings]

Adrian von Bidder wrote:
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> Of course I didn't expect the rt2400 to magically acquire WPA
> capabilities, but I'd at least expect the specified stuff to work...
> This is not bleeding edge hardware, after all, so even the Linux
> drivers should have had time to mature. (OTOH WEP is b0rken regardless
> of the bit strength, so I should replace that rt2400 stuff anyway.)

Ralink's driver has not matured but simply rotted, as kernels have
changed and Ralink has basically abandoned it (and it was a port from
Windows to start with, which is not a good basis for a Linux driver).
There is a new driver developed by the rt2x00 project (rt2400pci), but
since the controller is no longer available, it has received limited
testing.  However, if you would like to work with the Ralink packaging
team in testing it, we might be able to get somewhere.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?
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