Hi, I've been using my own backport of the Debian kernel, and when I saw that someone wants to upload it to backports.d.o, I wrote that I needed the options for my WiFi card.
I've been replied to that I should ask the kernel team, which I really agree with. So, please consider adding these options by default: CONFIG_RT2800PCI_RT33XX CONFIG_RT2800PCI_RT35XX CONFIG_RT2800USB_RT33XX CONFIG_RT2800USB_RT35XX It really does work for me (eg: my USB WiFi-N card is detected and working), and it seems a quite widespread shipset. I could find it for really cheap in Shanghai (70 yuan, which is about 7.5 euros). Cheers, and keep on the good work, Thomas Goirand (zigo) On 04/17/2011 12:01 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 04/16/2011 05:40 PM, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: >> Hi, >> >> yesterday I prepared a backport for linux-2.6 2.6.38-3, which works for >> me, but I would like to get some feedback from others before I'm going >> to upload it to squeeze-backports. >> >> It's available for amd64 from here: >> >> http://tretkowski.de/debian/squeeze-backports/ >> >> The linux-base package was splitted out from the linux-2.6 package, you >> need it as well. >> >> So please give it a try, and send feedback. >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Norbert > > Hello Norbert, > > I have an old laptop with a bad internal WiFi board, so I bought a newer > RaLink driver. To make it work, I had to add the option "rt2800usb - > Include support for rt33xx devices (EXPERIMENTAL)" and "rt2800usb - > Include support for rt35xx devices (EXPERIMENTAL)". These are not > activated in your build (I've just checked). > > I believe that one of the most important point of running a backported > kernel is to have such drivers for newer hardware. Could you please > include the option above? The options to activate are as below: > > CONFIG_RT2800PCI_RT33XX > CONFIG_RT2800PCI_RT35XX > CONFIG_RT2800USB_RT33XX > CONFIG_RT2800USB_RT35XX > > If you include the above options, I'll be able to test your backport > instead of the quick and dirty one that I did myself. > > Cheers, and thanks for the work, > > Thomas > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4daff700.7030...@debian.org
