january 2001 cupertino ca headquarters hsinchu taiwan products wi fi chipset parent mediatek website www.ralinktech.com ralink technology corp. was a wi fi chipset manufacturer mainly known for their ieee 802.11 wireless lan chipsets . originally founded in 2001 in cupertino california ralink moved its headquarters to hsinchu taiwan . on may 5 2011 ralink was bought by the taiwanese company mediatek . 1 ralink an its rt line of wifi products should not to be confused with realtek a manufacturer network communications products including a rtl series of wifi ics that is also based out of taiwan . some of ralink s 802.11 n rt2800 chipsets have been accepted into the wi fi alliance 802.11 n draft 2.0 core technology testbed . they have also been previously selected in the wi fi protected setup wps and wireless multimedia extensions power save wmm ps testbeds . ralink was a participant in the wi fi alliance and the ieee 802.11 standards committees . 2 ralink rt2560f on a wifi mini pci card ralink chipsets are used in various consumer grade routers made by gigabyte technology linksys d link asus and belkin as well as wi fi adaptors for usb pci expresscard pc cards and pci express interfaces . an example of an adapter is the nintendo wi fi usb connector which uses the ralink s rt2570 chipset to allow nintendo dss and wiis to connect to the internet via a home computer . contents 1 operating systems support 1.1 linux 2 references 3 external links operating systems support edit ralink provides some documentation without a non disclosure agreement . 3 this includes datasheets of their pci and pcie chipsets but for now does not include documentation of their system on a chip used in wireless routers . linux edit as can be seen in the article comparison of open source wireless drivers drivers for mediatek ralink wireless network interface controllers were mainlined into the linux kernel version 2.6.24 . ralink provides gnu general public license licensed gpl drivers for the linux kernel . while linux drivers for the older rt2500 chipsets are no longer updated by ralink these are now being maintained by serialmonkey s rt2x00 project . current ralink chipsets require a firmware to be loaded . ralink allows the use and redistribution of the firmwares but does not allow their modification . in february 2011 greg kroah hartman praised ralink for their change in attitude towards the linux kernel developer community as you can see in these posts ralink is sending patches for the upstream rt2x00 driver for their new chipsets and not just dumping a huge stand alone tarball driver on the community as they have done in the past . this shows a huge willingness to learn how to deal with the kernel community and they should be strongly encouraged and praised for this major change in attitude . greg kroah hartman on 2011 02 09 here references edit mediatek buys ralink ee times . retrieved 25 june 2016 . wi fi alliance announces first wi fi certified 802.11 n draft products biancuzzi federico . openbsd 3.9 blob busters interviewed o reilly media . retrieved 25 june 2016 . external links edit list of wi fi products using ralink chipsets rt2x00 project linux drivers . ral ural manual page for openbsd retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ralink & oldid 743337849 categories mediatekcompanies established in 2001networking hardware companieselectronics companies of taiwanhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersarticles with attributed pull quotes navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages portugu s edit links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 05 06 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view