[PlanetCCRMA] missing iwlwifi modules in new kernel 2.6.23.12

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 11:21 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 10:45 -0500, Hector Centeno wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Here I come again with a wireless request. I recently had to replace
> > the wireless card in my laptop and what I found available was an Intel
> > 4965. After installing it I was expecting to have to compile modules
> > for it but to my surprise I found it just worked  with the CCRMA
> > kernel... until the recent update.  It looks like the new
> > 2.6.23.12-1.rt14.1.fc8.ccrmart is missing the iwlwifi modules that are
> > present in the previous CCRMA kernels and that allowed my wifi to
> > work. Was this an intentional omission?
> 
> Hmmmm, most probably that was part of the Fedora patches. Some of them
> (and I think the wireless ones were one of them) would not patch
> correctly on top of the newer kernel... sigh. 

That's the reason, I "fixed" one of them to patch (linux-2.6-wireless)
and then:

+ '[' '!' -f /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES/linux-2.6-wireless-pending.patch ']'
+ case "$patch" in
+ patch -p1 -F1 -s
3 out of 355 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c.rej
3 out of 377 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c.rej
1 out of 66 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/main.c.rej

...
-- Fernando