On 12/03/11 11:28, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 12/03/11 01:46, Victor Helsing wrote:
>> SL6 is a great distribution, by the way. And congratulation to Urs for
>> his
>> excellent live CD/DVDs!
>>
>> I am trying to get the Ralink RT2860 wireless working on one of my
>> systems.
>> I installed the RT2860 "firmware" model (believe it was from epel or
>> elrepo), but cannot find the kmod rt2860 which seems to go with it. There
>> is some chatter about this module related to prior fedora releases. There
>> is a mention of this being from the rpmfusion repository, but cannot
>> find a
>> workable version for el6/sl6.
>>
>> Anyone have any thoughts on this? I don't think it is related to SL6
>> itself.
>>
>> Victor
>>
>
> Hi Victor,
>
> Yes, you are correct - it's not an SL6 issue specifically as the RT2860
> drivers aren't included in the SL6 (and RHEL6) kernel.
>
> Elrepo.org have previously provided these drivers for SL5 but finding
> testers for them was notoriously difficult so we simply haven't ported
> them over to SL6 yet. Now we have a potential tester in you, we
> (elrepo.org) would be glad to knock up a package for you to test. Would
> that be OK with you?
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil
>

Just to tie off this thread, there is now a driver for the RAlink RT2860 
Wireless device available for SL6 at elrepo:

http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=120

Many thanks to Victor for helping test the package.