Dave or John planning on updating mac80211 and ipw3945 code for fedora7? It's been working for the most part for me but I get frequent drops.
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On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 03:43:19PM -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
Dave or John planning on updating mac80211 and ipw3945 code for fedora7? It's been working for the most part for me but I get frequent drops.
The mac80211 code in F-7 is fairly up-to-date at the moment.
The iwl3945 and iwl4965 code is up-to-date w.r.t. what Intel has bothered to send to wireless-dev. I am (still) hoping that Intel intends to cooperate with the community by continuing to push their driver upstream. We'll see.
John
Louis E Garcia II wrote:
Dave or John planning on updating mac80211 and ipw3945 code for fedora7? It's been working for the most part for me but I get frequent drops.
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Hello I tried to yum mac80211 but it doesn't work on FC6. I have a Sony laptop with FC6 and would like to get the WiFi working on it.
Where can I learn about doing this?
Karl
On 6/29/07, Karl Larsen k5di@zianet.com wrote:
Hello I tried to yum mac80211 but it doesn't work on FC6. I have a Sony laptop with FC6 and would like to get the WiFi working on it.
Where can I learn about doing this?
mac80211 and iwl3945 are not separate packages. They are in the kernel itself. The newest testing version I know of is in Dave Jones's repository here,
http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/fc7/RPMS.kernel/i386/
it's version kernel-2.6.21-1.3232.fc7. As far as I can tell, the iwl3945 driver is quite a bit better than the original F7 kernel. I still have a lot of trouble making NetworkManager work, but the iwl3945 itself does seem to connect much better.
Paul Johnson wrote:
On 6/29/07, Karl Larsen k5di@zianet.com wrote:
Hello I tried to yum mac80211 but it doesn't work on FC6. I have a Sony laptop with FC6 and would like to get the WiFi working on it.
Where can I learn about doing this?mac80211 and iwl3945 are not separate packages. They are in the kernel itself. The newest testing version I know of is in Dave Jones's repository here,
http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/fc7/RPMS.kernel/i386/
it's version kernel-2.6.21-1.3232.fc7. As far as I can tell, the iwl3945 driver is quite a bit better than the original F7 kernel. I still have a lot of trouble making NetworkManager work, but the iwl3945 itself does seem to connect much better.
Thank you Doc, I have the kernel d/l as I write this. I am going to put F7 on my lap-top and it has a WiFi transceiver that works fine with Windows. I will get the kernel to the laptop. I am now happy with F7 here at home and will play with NetworkManager and see what pitfalls I come up with. Lots of the Linux GUI devices are just shells over other well known software. When I have done large Upgrades I much prefer to do them manual in a Terminal. You can SEE what's happening... :-)
Karl
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