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Heads up: rum wifi driver

Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:07:49 +0800
From: Quaker Fang <Quaker.Fang at sun dot com>
To: onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com, on-all at eng dot sun dot com
Subject: Heads up: rum wifi driver

You can safely ignore this message if you don't use wifi adapter based 
on Ralink RT2501/RT2601/RT73USB chipset.

I just integrated the followings into Solaris Nevada:

PSARC 2008/444 Ralink RT2501/2601USB 802.11a/b/g Wireless Driver
6600499 Request to support for the usb wireless adapter: 
Airlink101(usb148f,2573)

The rum(7D) driver is based on GLDv3 Framework, you can easily use it by
dladm or nwam. Note that rum supports security mode of None/WEP/WPA.
See http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/rum/ for
supported devices of rum driver.

Please file bug at solaris/driver/wifi if you find any problem.

Thanks

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Quaker