[PlanetCCRMA] fc6/7: new rt kernel; fc6/7: updated libgig

[John Dey]

Fernando,

I went ahead and installed the two packages indicated below for the 
rt19 kernel for fedora core 7 running on a Thinkpad t60p 8744 laptop.  
Wireless worked like a charm.  My wireless is encrypted with wpa2 and I 
am running with NetworkManager service.  I went back to the stock 
fedora core 7 kernel that is using ilw3945 and it is still functioning. 
  Thanks for your effort.  Now I have wireless for both kernels.  My 
guess is that ilw3945 will eventually replace ipw3945 but that is only 
a guess.

John

On Jul 5, 2007, at 8:29 PM, John Dey wrote:

> I didn't mention that I am running fc7.  A yum search shows to 
> packages kmod-ipw3945-rt and ipw3945-firmware--are they the new 
> packages that you added?
>
> John
> On Jul 5, 2007, at 8:22 PM, John Dey wrote:
>
>> Fernando,
>>
>> I upgraded.  Now running rt19 of the kernel.  Tried to "yum install 
>> kmod-ipw3945 iwp-firmware" neither package was in the repos?  Am I 
>> missing something?
>>
>> John
>> On Jul 5, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all, some kernel updates:
>>>
>>> fc6/fc7: kernel-rt-2.6.21-0182.rt19.1
>>>
>>> based in 2.6.21.5 and Ingo's 2.6.21.5-rt19. I had to skip rt18 as it 
>>> had
>>> problems with the udev startup sequence. Many thanks to Ingo, Thomas
>>> Gleixner - who fixed the bug - and Carsten Emde who provided the 
>>> traces
>>> that made it possible to debug it.
>>>
>>> Seems to work nicely in my tests (rt17 _sometimes_ had the udev 
>>> problems
>>> as well in some of the hardware configurations we have, which you may
>>> have seen as delays in the boot sequence).
>>>
>>> fc6/fc7: the stock 2.6.21.5 kernel does not include the ilw3945 
>>> wireless
>>> driver that is included as a patch in the stock Fedora kernel... and 
>>> my
>>> new laptop needs something, so I created kernel modules for the 
>>> ipw3945
>>> driver, its firmware and the regulatory daemon (the last two 
>>> rebuilds of
>>> what freshrpms provides - with thanks to Matthias)[*].
>>>
>>> If you want to test this, "yum install kmod-ipw3945 ipw-firmware" and
>>> all necessary packages should be installed. This kernel module will 
>>> only
>>> work with the rt kernel packages.
>>>
>>> On the same vein there's also a bleeding edge ALSA kernel modules
>>> package. If installed ("yum install kmod-alsa") it will provide a 
>>> very
>>> recent hg (it is a version control system used byt the ALSA project)
>>> snapshot of the alsa kernel drivers, which is newer than what comes
>>> bundled with 2.6.21.5. I wish I did not have to do this, but with the
>>> new kernel modules sound in my new laptop actually works. If you are
>>> having soundcard problems with very new hardware this may help.
>>>
>>> fc6/fc7: updated libgig to version 3.1.1
>>>
>>> Enjoy!
>>> -- Fernando
>>>
>>> [*] there are at least three widely used ways to package kernel 
>>> modules,
>>> I used "kmod" which is what is used officialy in Fedora and Livna,
>>> Freshrpms uses "dkms" and ATrpms use "kmdl"... let's _not_ argue 
>>> about
>>> which one is better, please :-)
>>>
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