[PlanetCCRMA] Re: [PlanetCCRMANews] fedora 8 support is landing

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 23:03 -0500, Hector Centeno wrote:
> Hello Fernando,
> 
> Thanks again... but this email was already responded and discussed on
> Nov 22. Getting this new response gave me a strange feeling of
> space-time collapse, hehe... unless what you intended was to give an
> announcement to the CCRMA community.

Nope, I don't know what happened... it seemed like a new message. I
guess I should have noticed. 

> But now that you mention the ipw3945, I haven't been able to upgrade
> to the latest kernel (released two days ago) because the corresponding
> kmod-ipw3945 package is missing... probably you are aware of this but
> just in case I wanted to let you know.

I was not. I guess it fell through the cracks. It is now fixed and the
ipw3945 modules are available for the new kernel. 

-- Fernando


> On Dec 9, 2007 6:34 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 15:28 -0500, Hector Centeno wrote:
> > > Thank you Fernando. I'm planning to upgrade my laptop to FC7 but I
> > > will need the ipw3945 modules for wireless network, are you planning
> > > on rebuilding those for FC8? I guess I could just grab the srpms and
> > > rebuild against the fc8 CCRMA kernel.
> >
> > kmod packages for the ipw3945 wireless cards are already available for
> > F8. But I still recommend F7, you may want to wait a bit if everything
> > is working fine for you on F7.
> >
> > -- Fernando
> >
> >
> > > On Nov 20, 2007 10:15 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
> > > <nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > >         On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 16:58 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
> > >         wrote:
> > >         > Well, there's a bunch of packages in the web site already...
> > >         see:
> > >         >
> > >         >
> > >         http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/8/i386/repoview/index.html
> > >         >
> > >         >
> > >         http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/8/x86_64/repoview/index.html
> > >         >
> > >         > Most of it seems to be working fine. Lightly tested on i386,
> > >         fun for
> > >         > adventure minded users (ie: non-tested) on x86_64.
> > >         >
> > >         > Some packages like planetccrma-menus and planetccrma-apps
> > >         are not there
> > >
> > >
> > >         But now, if you do:
> > >          yum install planetccrma-apps
> > >         you should automagically get most of the Planet CCRMA world
> > >         for Fedora 8
> > >
> > >         Enjoy!
> > >         -- Fernando
> > >