On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:10:26AM -0400, sean darcy wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > >No accident -- the wireless bits in Fedora kernels are quite a bit > >ahead of their nominal base version. Generally, they are synced with > >the upstream wireless trees. > > > >John > > OK. But then I'm back to my original question: why all those > > Apr 1 11:03:56 notebook kernel: b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error > Apr 1 11:04:03 notebook kernel: printk: 26 messages suppressed. > > in /var/log/messages? No idea. > Or if we're supposed to use the old 4.80.53 firmware, why the deprecated > message? Both firmwares are currently supported. The message is to encourage you to prepare for the future. That is pretty much what "deprecated" means. :-) > The upstream list probably won't respond: they obviously think only a > portion of the new driver was included - not the whole thing. They should pull their ears past their sphincters... John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxx