iwl4965 ht/802.11n

Jason Newton nevion at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 14:04:45 UTC 2008


John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 06:48:11AM -0700, Jason Newton wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>> I'm new to this list and sort of to fedora so be gentle :-).
>> I bought myself a new 802.11n router since 2.6.25 and up now boast 
>> 802.11n functionality with iwl4965, a card I have in my t61p thinkpad, 
>> but it seems CONFIG_IWL4965_HT and CONFIG_NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE are not 
>> set in either 2.6.25.9-76.fc9 or rawhide's 2.6.26-0.107.rc8.git2 and are 
>> required for 802.11n functionality.  Is there a chance they might be 
>> enabled in current or future builds for fedora 9/rawhide?  How soon 
>> could I expect such  builds to be released?
>>     
>
> CONFIG_IWL4965_HT has been removed upstream and in the code in the
> Fedora kernels.  It is no longer necessary.
>
> CONFIG_NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE is necessary and I feel a bit silly
> that I didn't realize it was not on at least in rawhide.  Is there
> any reason we don't have it on already?
>
> John
>   

Again, I'm a newbie but it seems that CONFIG_IWL4965_HT  is present in 
both compat-wireless-2008-07-08 and vanilla 2.6.26-rc9 or am I not 
looking upstream enough....

Best regards,
-Jason




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