Fedora 7 Test Update: kernel-2.6.23-1.fc7

[Mike Cohler]

Mike C wrote:

>Just tested particularly with respect to the rt73usb driver.
>This works nicely and is stable provided the rt2500usb driver is blacklisted
>in
>/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

>iwconfig reports a Bit Rate of 1Mb/s but the achieved rate is much higher
>than this.

A short time after this test iwconfig showed the Bit Rate has gone up
to 54Mb/s so it was just a delayed indication and the wireless
connection remains stable. This test was conducted using a standard
connection method defining wlan0 via
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0

I should have said that this was tested for wireless using the Edimax
USB wireless adapter EW-7318UG

The main reason for testing this was to see if the connection would
also work with wpa_supplicant.
So I shut down the standard connection, and configured wpa_supplicant
using the wext driver and with WEP encryption. This also works nicely
though I have yet to check with WPA encryption under wpa_supplicant.

wpa_supplicant works both with manual start as well as running the
wpa_supplicant daemon.
In order to get the wireless up at boot after setting chkconfig
wpa_supplicant on, I altered the file /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant has
the first few lines:
The first few lines are now:
#!/bin/bash
#
# wpa_supplicant
#
# chkconfig:   - 09 88
in the last line the 09 had been 12 by default.

All that is necessary after booting up is to run dhclient to get an ip
address and it is running.

However this is great progress and a very pleasing new kernel - so
thanks again to the devs.

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mike cohler