urgent testing call: F13 kernel-2.6.33.1-24.fc13

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 14:53 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi, everyone. We're looking at pulling kernel-2.6.33.1-24.fc13 into
> Fedora 13 Beta, quite late, because current Beta candidate builds
> include kernel-2.6.33.1-19.fc13 which is known to include a severe bug
> that breaks boot on systems with Broadcom wired ethernet adapters
> supported by the b44 module.
> 
> However, -24 has other changes from -19, including to the nouveau
> (NVIDIA graphics) and iwlwifi (Intel wifi) drivers. We really need as
> many people as possible to test kernel -24, which you can get at
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=164598 , and
> confirm that it works okay on your systems.
> 
> To install it, use 'rpm -ivh' for the kernel and -devel packages. If you
> have kernel-headers installed, 'rpm -Uvh' that first. Then reboot to the
> kernel and check that it boots up okay. Please reply to this thread with
> your results. Thanks!

Thanks to everyone for their testing, it's greatly appreciated. Based on
the positive response here and on forums, we spun a new RC of the beta
with the -24 kernel included, so now if you still want to help testing,
please test that. See
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2010-April/000061.html .
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