kernel 2.6.12 troubles

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Fri Jul 8 05:10:25 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:11 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:

> 2. Can't compile ipw2200 drivers anymore.
> 
> I wonder if there is in FC testing a new version of the kernel that I 
> can drop into an FC4 system for testing to see if these things go away? 
>   Or perhaps one is better advised to run the 2.6.11 kernel?  Are there 
> security issuses to be worried about in going back?

This is because the generic ieee80211 part of the driver is now a
(partial) duplicate of the ieee80211 stack in the upstream kernel.

There are several patches on the ipw2200 list and website about how to
fix it so that it builds again.
-- 
        Peter




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