First steps of the transition from Livna to RPM Fusion begins now for livna-devel users!

[Peter Robinson]

>>>>> Find below a cut'n'pasted and slightly enhanced version of a post from
>>>>> my
>>>>> blog FYI:
>>>>>
>>>>> As you'll likely have heard by now: RPM Fusion ( http://rpmfusion.org
>>>>> ),
>>>>> the
>>>>> merger of Dribble, Freshrpms and Livna gets closer to its official
>>>>> release/start. Most of the packages from Livna have been imported and
>>>>> build
>>>>> for RPM Fusion already, hence we now begin to slowly move users from
>>>>> Livna
>>>>> over to RPM Fusion by activating the RPM Fusion free and nonfree
>>>>> rawhide
>>>>> repos for users of livna's devel branch *now*.
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> Is there any chance of getting all the kmod packages rebuilt against
>>>> the the current 2.6.27-3 release? The rest of the packages I've tested
>>>> look great, its just some of the kmod ones I can't.
>>>
>>> I build the kmods for the kernel that were shipped with the beta. If you
>>> follow rawhide then you might want to install the akmod-packages (e.g.
>>> akmod-nvidia); then the akmods scripts will automatically build new kmod
>>> packages when you install a new kernel-install (or during boot); that's
>>> similar to how dkms does it.
>>>
>>> The plan is to rebuild all kmods in RPM Fusion for the latest rawhide
>>> kernel
>>> automatically once a week (likely on each Sunday) to make sure they still
>>> compile (and for users with slow netbooks, where you don't want to
>>> compile
>>> modules); but I haven't got around to set that up yet, sorry.
>>
>> The netbook wifi drivers were what I was after as my netbook [...]
>
> I suppose you own a 1st gen EeePC? If yes, then give the ath5k driver from
> 2.6.27 a try, as it should support the wireless chips in those Eee PCs
> afaik.

Nope, a eeePC 901 with the rt2680 card (I think its that one - some
realtek 11n card anyway).

Peter