The RT2400 and RT2500 chipsets are possibly the only WirelessChipsets with a GPL driver
How do you figure that? Intel certainly have active development going on IPW2100/2200 at present which is fully GPL and what are the Orinoco and other drivers that are in the kernel or in the process of going into the kernel? -- IanMcDonald
"Ralink worked with Mark Wallis, Ivo van Doorn, Luis Correia, Robin Cornelius and others to get a supported driver out there under the GPL". "Special thanks to Minitar, the network gear vendor with the foresight to ask Ralink to make the driver GPL".
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