From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Jayant Sane <jayant_sane@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Newbie question on 2.6.28-rc8-wl
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:05:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496B5C2D.4030607@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU129-W353904E1AB1EEE7AC28C7D80D80@phx.gbl>
Jayant Sane wrote:
>
> Thank you.
>
> Again pardon my ignorance here..
>
> It seems that I can either get 2.6.28-wl or 2.6.28-rc8 per your suggestions below but not 2.6.28-rc8-wl
>
> And I know it is possible to have the kernel version reported as 2.6.28-rc8-wl. How can I get that?
The -wl part comes from the presence of a file named
"localversion-wireless" in the wireless-testing directory. This file
has one line with the contents of that line being "-wl" (without the
quotation marks, or course).
If you are compiling this particular kernel to get some wireless
driver, then 2.6.28-wl is likely to be better than 2.6.28-rc8-wl.
Please elaborate your reason for being told to get the -rc8 variant.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-12 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-11 16:50 Newbie question on 2.6.28-rc8-wl Jayant Sane
2009-01-11 17:10 ` Larry Finger
2009-01-12 6:37 ` Jayant Sane
2009-01-12 15:05 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2009-08-01 1:28 ` Larry Finger
2009-01-11 17:12 ` Fabio Rossi
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