[Bug 202528] Review Request: rt2x00-kmod

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Summary: Review Request: rt2x00-kmod


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202528





------- Additional Comments From kwizart at gmail.com  2006-10-31 17:20 EST -------
FC6 are only build on i386 because i'm making a transition between FC5-FC6. I
wish  it exist an "external built from extras" that would be possible. But i
will drop "testing" support on wy website for FC5(and gain support for fc6 in
few days i hope...).

I also cannot use my signing key for rpmsign. It works for gpg but not for
rpmsign, i don't know why! Feel free to mail me for this issues,...

You can have more informations about my test repository here: (in french!)
http://kwizart.free.fr/blog
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Thank you John W. Linville to answear this review! I plan to try this tommorrow!
The first thought is : if the d80211 code is modified then it may has a good
reason. And that's why it cannot be inside the vanilla kernel! 
Another thought is if a person needs the rt2x00-kmod he probably do not needs
another based d80211 wifi chipset module (like bcm43xx, but there is certainly
others planned!).So i wonder if it is a good choice to make two differents
packages before d80211 will be inside the kernel tree?
I will try to investigate with some example...

I also tried to make a kmod with the netdev kernel but i didn't riched! any
tips? the netdev suffix do not seem to be "in a name"...


I also thanks Thorsten Leemhuis for his well-documented kmod scheme! I've read
the FESCo meeting about rt2x00 but I have 6days of decay...
I expect the approval is for rt2x00-kmod! It is a good news, but the less better
one is that users seems to report difficulties to the setup step. There is a
manual setup protocol witch gives better results (iwconfig - See the readme)
whereas the automatic scripts setup (system-network-config) send the command too
fast for the device...I thought it was about miss-versionning between
wireless-extension V20 and wireless-tools V19 on FC5. I will see what's happen
on fc6 next days...
So i hope it can be at least on testing for fc6!

I'm also still considering the comment #13 by Josh Boyer. 
Maybe more info about this when a future testing kernel will avaible. 
I will then reference a bug about this issues and a kernel-testing!




I will try to investigate this with

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