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Welcome to the rt2x00 Project
This project is a development effort to provide free, stable and feature rich Linux drivers for wireless 802.11b/g/i cards based on the following Ralink chipsets: rt2400, rt2500, rt2570, rt61 and rt73.
Our drivers come in two flavors: enhanced RaLink legacy drivers and next-generation rt2x00 drivers (included mainline Linux kernel).
They provide all the features you could expect, such as encryption, traffic monitoring, frame injection and more. Legacy drivers however do not support HostAP nor wpa_supplicant, and some of them are not stable on SMP systems yet.
Please feel free to browse the history of the project, read the documentation or just jump on in and grab the latest version of the source available from the downloads page.
If you have problems and the documentation isn't helpful, thenthen roll over to the forums or mailing lists and post a question to the community.
For more detail see our history page and our roadmap page.
License information
The driver code we make available here is released under the GPL. However, some drivers require firmware to be loaded to the device. This firmware is redistributable but not modifiable, since it has a specific Firmware license.
Latest news
Developers meeting log - August 2008
Hi All,
We did a quick a developer's meeting today.
Check out what was discussed, in the Meetings link.
Luis Correia
rt2x00 Project Administrator
rt2x00 featured @ linux.com - May 2008
Hi All,
Last April, linux.com has made an article about our project, here's the link: http://www.linux.com/feature/132701
Luis Correia
rt2x00 Project Administrator
rt2x00 enters mainline kernel - January 2008
Hi All,
two days ago, January 24th, Linux Kernel 2.6.24 was released. This is the first mainline kernel that includes (sadly a somewhat buggy) rt2x00 release.
Our rt2x00 driver has reached a broader audience, and we all wish to congratulate the developers and most importantly all of our users who provided numerous bug reports and even fixes.
Now, lets continue to work towards a stabler driver!
Luis Correia
rt2x00 Project Administrator
Older news
Older news can be found in the archive
RSS
We also provide a couple of RSS feeds for our users.
The News Feed will give you up-to-date info on any file releases or major happenings with the project.
The Forum Feed will give you a direct feed from all the forums on our website.
And finally, BETA Testing Feed will give you a direct feed from our rt2x00 BETA testing forum.
Thanks
Our deepest thanks go out to the following groups and individuals
- Ralink for providing the chipsets and placing their source-code under the GPL license
- The developers for their hard work and sleepless nights
- Minitar for making the initial push to get the source under GPL license
- All the contributors that have helped along the way
- Hardware vendors that have donated rt2x00 based cards to help development
- Hardware donations not related to rt2x00 based cards