On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:08:58PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 1:50 PM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hmmm...well, my wireless-testing tree changes from day to day. That > > tree feeds both the Fedora kernels and the compat-wireless package. > What we (faceless users) need from you (man behind the curtain) is a > signal that "now is the right time to try iwl3945 in kernel-XXX". If > you posted in fedora-devel, I would probably see it. I can't to try > every kernel listed on koji because every time I install a new kernel, > I have to rebuild the nvidia module and the openafs module driver. If > I use compat-wireless, I can do the new iwl3945 module without > spending one-half of the day on kernel stuff. If I knew when people were going to have problems, I'd only merge bug-free combinations. :-) In general these drivers are expected to function. Indeed for my boxes in my environments they have generally worked for a long time. There has been some churn upstream recently that probably destabilized them -- I assure you that it was unintentional. FWIW, you can probably deduce whether or not your wireless is working w/o having to rebuild those modules you mention. Anyway, if you are happy using the compat-wireless package then I am happy for you. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxx
