[elrepo] Ralink rt3290sta driver for CentOS 6

[Phil Perry]

On 05/11/13 12:24, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> On 11/05/2013 01:14 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>> On 11/10/13 09:05, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>>> On 10/09/2013 03:02 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>>>> On 08/09/13 17:31, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>>>>> Hi.
>>>>>
>>>>> There was a Facebook CentOS group member that asked about Ralink
>>>>> driver
>>>>> for RT3290 on his notebook CentOS 6.4.
>>>>>
>>>>> I told him to try Kernel-ml kernel, but it would be good to have that
>>>>> driver compiled if someone of you is up to it:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/253632/how-do-i-get-a-ralink-rt3290-wireless-card-working
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ljubomir Ljubojevic
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Apologies for the delay...
>>>>
>>>> I've built packages for el6 and they are currently syncing to the
>>>> testing repository.
>>>>
>>>> kmod-rt3290sta-2.6.0.0-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
>>>> kmod-rt3290sta-2.6.0.0-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>>>> rt3290sta-kmod-2.6.0.0-1.el6.elrepo.src.rpm
>>>>
>>>> I'd appreciate if you could ask the interested person to test and
>>>> provide feedback. I'd be particularly interested to see the output
>>>> from dmesg and/or /var/log/messages.
>>>>
>>>> I've bundled a firmware within the package but I'm not 100% sure this
>>>> is the right firmware, the output from the above should confirm.
>>>>
>>>> The packages are configured to work with NetworkManager and should
>>>> "just work" out of the box.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Phil
>>>
>>> Thanks. I posted it on CentOS FB page. Will report back when I get
>>> feedback.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ljubomir
>>
>> I've had feedback from one other user so I'm going to promote these
>> out of testing to the main repo.
>>
>> I'd really appreciate if people would provide quick feedback - a
>> simple "works for me" is much appreciated :-)
>>
>> Phil
>>
>
> I hadn't had any response from the person that asked for them. Without
> blaming you, it did take 25 days so who knows what happened in the mean
> time.
>

No problem, I understand. Real life commitments got in the way this 
time, and to be honest these Ralink wireless drivers are never top of my 
priority list as historically (with one notable exception) I've had near 
zero feedback on them so it's always been difficult to quantify if my 
time wouldn't be better spent working on other packages. Users who turn 
up here and engage will always get our attention first.

If you filed an RFE with Red Hat it would take them a lot longer though :-)

Phil