On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:22:23PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > It mentions a project compat-wireless which has daily-updated code for > many different network kernel modules. Here's the tarball > > http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2 > > The patches mentioned on Bill Moss's page are already applied in the > compat-wireless package that is online today. It is updated every > day. Not quite true. Bill's page has links to two patches. One of them is in the tree, the other is not. I predict the other will be in the tree within a few days. > A case in point. I have the Intel ipw3945 wireless in a Dell Laptop. > It hardly ever works under the iwl3945 driver in the 2.6.24 kernel > from Fedora, but I have had some luck experimenting with various koji > kernels. I never could figure out why it would change from day to > day, but I'm getting an idea that it traces back to the > compat-wireless changing from day to day. Hmmm...well, my wireless-testing tree changes from day to day. That tree feeds both the Fedora kernels and the compat-wireless package. > If you are one of the suffering iwl3945 users with the 2.6.24 kernel, > I wonder if the compat-wireless modules will help you as well? You > might as well try it. It is as easy as a "make" and "make install" > "make unload" and "make load". Or a restart. Their directions are > great. Even easier, go get the latest F8 (or rawhide) kernel out of Koji: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8 You'll get the same set of wireless bits (give or take a day or two from time to time) and you won't have to build anything yourself. Plus you'll have a versioned package, so that later updates will apply appropriately without requiring further builds. > I'm a little puzzled why or how the kernel (or is it depmod?) knows to > use the updates drivers before the ones provided by the kernel. See > what I mean, I have both sets still: I think it is just smart enough to look there first. Hth! John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxx
