Add drivers for Ralink wireless hardware.
Test kernels with these updates are available here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel5/ Any interested parties should try those kernels and report the results here...thanks!
Test kernels w/ drivers from 2.6.26 available here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel5/ Please give them a try and post the results here...thanks!
in kernel-2.6.18-107.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5
Created attachment 316443 [details] jwltest-rt2x00lib-probe-fail.patch rt2500usb and rt73usb have some PCI ID overlap. They each have code in their probe paths that determines whether or not the driver in question can support the available hardware. Unfortunately, the error path in the probe routines has a NULL pointer dereference. So if the wrong driver gets loaded first...*splat*... I think upstream has the same issue, so I'll push this there as well.
in kernel-2.6.18-113.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5
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Release note added. If any revisions are required, please set the "requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: Cause: Ralink wireless hardware was not supported in RHEL5. Consequence: Owners of this hardware could not use wireless networks. Fix: The upstream rt2x00 drivers were backported to RHEL5 from upstream kernel version 2.6.26. Result: Most Ralink 802.11b/g devices now work with RHEL5.
Release note updated. If any revisions are required, please set the "requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1,7 +1 @@ -Cause: Ralink wireless hardware was not supported in RHEL5. +the rt2x00 drivers for Ralink wireless devices has been backported to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 from Linux Kernel 2.6.26.- -Consequence: Owners of this hardware could not use wireless networks. - -Fix: The upstream rt2x00 drivers were backported to RHEL5 from upstream kernel version 2.6.26. - -Result: Most Ralink 802.11b/g devices now work with RHEL5.
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