Frequently Asked Questions for the rt2400 Project
=================================================

Q. What is rt2500 ?
A. rt2500 is a chipset developed by Ralink Inc for the 802.11g Wireless
market. It is the basis for which many manufacturer's cards are based off.

Q. Hang on, the SF project is called rt2400, not rt2500 ! What gives !
A. We started the SF project when only the rt2400 code was GPL. Since then
the rt2500 code has been released but we wanted to keep both code-bases
under the control of one project. Why you ask ? 

Q. Why are both rt2400 and rt2500 in the same SF project ?
A. Because we are developing a new Linux driver from scratch (ala the
source-rebuild/experimental project) that will support BOTH the rt2400
and rt2500 cards under a new driver called rt2x00.

Q. Will you then rename the rt2400 project to rt2x00 ?
A. Probably not, it's too hard. We will just make sure all the 
documentation is up to date and reflects the fact that we are supporting
both card types.

Q. Why do we have this project ?
A. Ralink initially released the drivers under a closed source license.
Recently, they decided to GPL the source code and hence we have opened
this project such that we can roll forward the fixes the team has made
to the rt2400 source as well as use the Ralink written enhancements
(i.e. WPA support) back in the rt2400 driver.

Q. Is this driver stable ?
A. Currently, there are a few known issues with the driver. Please visit
the SourceForge project at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/rt2400 for
the current bug list.

Q. How do I get help ?
A. Please visit the SourceForge project and check out the forums and
mailing lists. We monitor both and will be able to offer assistance on any
problems you have. 

Q. What is the Utility ?
A. It is a X11 based application using the QT framework that replicates the
standard interface you would expect when using the driver under a Windows
operating system. It allows you to scan for active WLAN's and
configure/connect to them.

Q. How come I can't use <insert feature here>
A. Probably because we haven't developed the driver to allow it yet. Please
check out the Feature Request listing on the SourceForge project and add it
if it's missing.

Q. How can I offer information on crashes/bugs im having ?
A. By enabling DEBUG mode. Todo this edit the Makefile in the source folder
and add -DRT2400_DBG to the end of the EXTRAS_CFLAGS line. Then make clean
and make/make install to install the now debug-enabled driver. All debug
info will make it through syslog (careful you don't flood your log 
partition though, it is very noisy).

Q. Your website is ugly. Get a new one.
A. It's coming :-) (so is christmas but hopefully I'll get it done before
then.
