r77 - in unstable: rt2400/debian rt2500/debian rt2570/debian rt2x00/debian

Sun Nov 11 21:49:30 UTC 2007

Author: benh
Date: 2007-11-11 21:49:30 +0000 (Sun, 11 Nov 2007)
New Revision: 77

Modified:
   unstable/rt2400/debian/control
   unstable/rt2400/debian/control.modules.in
   unstable/rt2500/debian/control
   unstable/rt2500/debian/control.modules.in
   unstable/rt2570/debian/control
   unstable/rt2570/debian/control.modules.in
   unstable/rt2x00/debian/control
   unstable/rt2x00/debian/control.modules.in
Log:
Updated the lists of chipsets supported by each driver and removed the lists of controller and PHY chips since they're unlikely to be that helpful.
Removed warning about status of rt2x00 since it's quite mature now.
Added cross-references between "legacy" and rewritten drivers.
Added references to firmware for rt61pci and rt73usb drivers.
Replaced suggestion of nonexistent rt2570 binary package with suggestion of rutilt.


Modified: unstable/rt2400/debian/control
===================================================================

--- unstable/rt2400/debian/control	2007-11-05 16:52:39 UTC (rev 76)
+++ unstable/rt2400/debian/control	2007-11-11 21:49:30 UTC (rev 77)
@@ -14,8 +14,11 @@
 Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0), module-assistant
 Suggests: gcc-3.3
 Description: source for rt2400 wireless network driver
- This package provides the source code of the Linux driver for wireless
- network cards using the Ralink RT2400 chipset (RT2460 controller).
+ This package provides source code for the rt2400 driver for Linux.
+ This driver supports PCI and CardBus wireless network cards with the
+ Ralink RT2400 or RT2401 chipset.  An alternate driver, rt2400pci, is
+ available in the rt2x00-source package and in the Linux kernel from
+ version 2.6.24.
  .
  In order to compile the driver you need the kernel sources (or
  the linux-headers for the linux-image packages from Debian). For

Modified: unstable/rt2400/debian/control.modules.in
===================================================================
--- unstable/rt2400/debian/control.modules.in	2007-11-05 16:52:39 UTC (rev 76)
+++ unstable/rt2400/debian/control.modules.in	2007-11-11 21:49:30 UTC (rev 77)
@@ -12,9 +12,7 @@
 Conflicts: rt2400-_KVERS_
 Suggests: rt2400
 Description: rt2400 wireless network driver
- This package contains the driver for wireless network cards using the
- Ralink RT2400 chipset (RT2460 controller and RT2420 RF PHY supporting
- 802.11b only).
+ This package contains the rt2400 driver for Linux _KVERS_.
  .
- The modules were compiled to be compatible with the kernel in the
- _KVERS_ package.
+ This driver supports PCI and CardBus wireless network cards with the
+ Ralink RT2400 or RT2401 chipset.

Modified: unstable/rt2500/debian/control
===================================================================
--- unstable/rt2500/debian/control	2007-11-05 16:52:39 UTC (rev 76)
+++ unstable/rt2500/debian/control	2007-11-11 21:49:30 UTC (rev 77)
@@ -14,8 +14,11 @@
 Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0), module-assistant
 Suggests: gcc-3.3
 Description: source for rt2500 wireless network driver
- This package provides the source code of the Linux driver for wireless
- network cards using the Ralink RT2500 chipset (RT2560 controller).
+ This package provides source code for the rt2500 driver for Linux.
+ This driver supports PCI and CardBus wireless network cards with the
+ Ralink RT2500 or RT5200 chipset.  An alternate driver, rt2500pci, is
+ available in the rt2x00-source package and in the Linux kernel from
+ version 2.6.24.
  .
  In order to compile the driver you need the kernel sources (or
  the linux-headers for the linux-image packages from Debian). For

Modified: unstable/rt2500/debian/control.modules.in
===================================================================
--- unstable/rt2500/debian/control.modules.in	2007-11-05 16:52:39 UTC (rev 76)
+++ unstable/rt2500/debian/control.modules.in	2007-11-11 21:49:30 UTC (rev 77)
@@ -12,9 +12,7 @@
 Recommends: linux-image-_KVERS_, wireless-tools
 Suggests: rutilt
 Description: rt2500 wireless network driver
- This package contains the driver for wireless network cards using the
- Ralink RT2500 chipset (RT2560 controller and RT2525 RF PHY supporting
- 802.11b/g).
+ This package contains the rt2500 driver for Linux _KVERS_.
  .
- The modules were compiled to be compatible with the kernel in the
- _KVERS_ package.
+ This driver supports PCI and CardBus wireless network cards with the
+ Ralink RT2500 or RT5200 chipset.

Modified: unstable/rt2570/debian/control
===================================================================
--- unstable/rt2570/debian/control	2007-11-05 16:52:39 UTC (rev 76)
+++ unstable/rt2570/debian/control	2007-11-11 21:49:30 UTC (rev 77)
@@ -14,9 +14,11 @@
 Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0), module-assistant
 Suggests: gcc-3.3
 Description: source for rt2570 wireless network driver
- This package provides the source code of the Linux driver for wireless
- network cards using the Ralink RT2500USB chipset (RT2571 or RT2572
- controller and RT2526 RF PHY supporting 802.11b/g).
+ This package provides source code for the rt2570 driver for Linux.
+ This driver supports USB wireless network cards with the Ralink
+ RT2500USB chipset.  An alternate driver, rt2500usb, is available in
+ the rt2x00-source package and in the Linux kernel from version
+ 2.6.24.
  .
  In order to compile the driver you need the kernel sources (or
  the linux-headers for the linux-image packages from Debian). For

Modified: unstable/rt2570/debian/control.modules.in
===================================================================
--- unstable/rt2570/debian/control.modules.in	2007-11-05 16:52:39 UTC (rev 76)
+++ unstable/rt2570/debian/control.modules.in	2007-11-11 21:49:30 UTC (rev 77)
@@ -9,11 +9,9 @@
 Package: rt2570-modules-_KVERS_
 Architecture: any
 Recommends: linux-image-_KVERS_, wireless-tools
-Suggests: rt2570
+Suggests: rutilt
 Description: rt2570 wireless network driver
- This package contains the driver for wireless network cards using the
- Ralink RT2500USB chipset (RT2571 or RT2572 controller and RT2526 RF PHY
- supporting 802.11b/g).
+ This package contains the rt2570 driver for Linux _KVERS_.
  .
- The modules were compiled to be compatible with the kernel in the
- _KVERS_ package.
+ This driver supports USB wireless network cards with the Ralink
+ RT2500USB chipset.

Modified: unstable/rt2x00/debian/control
===================================================================
--- unstable/rt2x00/debian/control	2007-11-05 16:52:39 UTC (rev 76)
+++ unstable/rt2x00/debian/control	2007-11-11 21:49:30 UTC (rev 77)
@@ -12,16 +12,20 @@
 Package: rt2x00-source
 Architecture: all
 Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0), module-assistant, bzip2
-Description: RT2x00 wireless network drivers source
- This package provides the source code of the Linux drivers for wireless
- network cards using the Ralink RT2x00 chips. It is a complete rewrite
- of the RT2400/RT2500/RT2570 drivers, it uses the standard iw* 
- configuration tools, and it aims to be integrated in the kernel tree.
+Description: source for rt2x00 wireless network drivers
+ This package provides source code for the rt2400pci, rt2500pci,
+ rt2500usb, rt61pci and rt73usb drivers for Linux.  These drivers
+ support PCI, CardBus and USB wireless network cards with the Ralink
+ RT2400-series, RT2500-series, RT2600-series, RT5200-series and
+ RT5600-series chipsets.
  .
+ These drivers use the latest Linux wireless stack and can only be
+ built for versions 2.6.22 and 2.6.23.  The Ralink drivers in the
+ rt2400-source, rt2500-source, rt2570-source and rt73-source packages
+ support earlier kernel versions, but do not work so well with
+ standard Linux wireless tools.
+ .
  In order to compile the kernel modules you need the kernel sources (or
  the kernel-headers for the kernel-image packages from Debian). For
  compile instructions look into /usr/share/doc/rt2x00-source/README.Debian
  or simply use the module-assistant utility.
- .
- WARNING: This driver is still experimental, it only works for a few 
- cards. You will need a 2.6.22 or later kernel to use it.

Modified: unstable/rt2x00/debian/control.modules.in
===================================================================
--- unstable/rt2x00/debian/control.modules.in	2007-11-05 16:52:39 UTC (rev 76)
+++ unstable/rt2x00/debian/control.modules.in	2007-11-11 21:49:30 UTC (rev 77)
@@ -9,10 +9,15 @@
 Package: rt2x00-modules-_KVERS_
 Architecture: any
 Recommends: linux-image-_KVERS_ | kernel-image-_KVERS_, wireless-tools
-Suggests: rutilt
-Description: RT2x00 wireless network drivers
- This package contains the set of loadable kernel modules for wireless
- network cards using Ralink RT2x00 chips.
+Suggests: rutilt, firmware-rt61, firmware-rt73
+Description: rt2x00 wireless network drivers
+ This package contains the rt2400pci, rt2500pci, rt2500usb, rt61pci
+ and rt73usb drivers for Linux _KVERS_.
  .
- The modules were compiled to be compatible with the kernel in the
- _KVERS_ package.
+ These drivers support PCI, CardBus and USB wireless network cards
+ with the Ralink RT2400-series, RT2500-series, RT2600-series,
+ RT5200-series and RT5600-series chipsets.
+ .
+ The rt61pci and rt73usb drivers require 'firmware' files which are
+ included in the firmware-rt61 and firmware-rt73 packages
+ respectively.


