RHEL5.5 (and Centos 5.5!) wireless updates needs broad testing...

RHEL5.5 (and Centos 5.5!) wireless updates needs broad testing...

[John W. Linville]

Greetings,

RHEL5.5 is scheduled for a broad update of wireless LAN bits.
This includes updates to the cfg80211 and the mac80211 subsystems,
and the ath5k, iwl3945, iwl4965, iwl5000, rt2400pci, rt2500pci,
rt2500usb, rt61pci, rt73usb, rtl8180, and rtl8187 drivers, as well as
the addition of the iwl1000, and iwl6000 drivers and the core of the
rfkill subsystem.  For good measure, ath9k _may_ be added as well.
This represents a very large mass of code, and any extra testing is
most welcome.

Preliminary RHEL5 kernels with these wireless bits are available here:

	http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel5/

I have been using them with iwl4965, iwl5000, iwl6000, and ath9k
hardware here with very satisfactory results.  I would appreciate
your help testing not only on this hardware but whatever other bits
of the aforementioned hardware that you may have.

If you have a wireless LAN enabled box running RHEL5 (or CentOS 5 or
other equivalent) then please give these kernels a try.  When you find
problems, please open a bug against RHEL5.5 at bugzilla.redhat.com
and Cc: me on the bug.	Remember, the surest way to avoid a bug in
RHEL5.5 is to find it before it is released, and the surest way to
avoid a bug in CentOS is to keep it out of RHEL... :-)

I appreciate your help!

Thanks,

John
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Re: [internal-ath9k-devel] RHEL5.5 (and Centos 5.5!) wireless updates needs broad testing...

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:21 PM, John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> RHEL5.5 is scheduled for a broad update of wireless LAN bits.
> This includes updates to the cfg80211 and the mac80211 subsystems,
> and the ath5k, iwl3945, iwl4965, iwl5000, rt2400pci, rt2500pci,
> rt2500usb, rt61pci, rt73usb, rtl8180, and rtl8187 drivers, as well as
> the addition of the iwl1000, and iwl6000 drivers and the core of the
> rfkill subsystem.  For good measure, ath9k _may_ be added as well.
> This represents a very large mass of code, and any extra testing is
> most welcome.
>
> Preliminary RHEL5 kernels with these wireless bits are available here:
>
>        http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel5/
>
> I have been using them with iwl4965, iwl5000, iwl6000, and ath9k
> hardware here with very satisfactory results.  I would appreciate
> your help testing not only on this hardware but whatever other bits
> of the aforementioned hardware that you may have.
>
> If you have a wireless LAN enabled box running RHEL5 (or CentOS 5 or
> other equivalent) then please give these kernels a try.  When you find
> problems, please open a bug against RHEL5.5 at bugzilla.redhat.com
> and Cc: me on the bug.  Remember, the surest way to avoid a bug in
> RHEL5.5 is to find it before it is released, and the surest way to
> avoid a bug in CentOS is to keep it out of RHEL... :-)
>
> I appreciate your help!


Thanks John, I'm keeping track of ath9k issues with regards to this kernel here:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k/RHEL5

If anyone else finds issues please add a link there.

  Luis

Re: [internal-ath9k-devel] RHEL5.5 (and Centos 5.5!) wireless updates needs broad testing...

[John W. Linville]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 02:50:28PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:21 PM, John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> wrote:

> > If you have a wireless LAN enabled box running RHEL5 (or CentOS 5 or
> > other equivalent) then please give these kernels a try.  When you find
> > problems, please open a bug against RHEL5.5 at bugzilla.redhat.com
> > and Cc: me on the bug.  Remember, the surest way to avoid a bug in
> > RHEL5.5 is to find it before it is released, and the surest way to
> > avoid a bug in CentOS is to keep it out of RHEL... :-)
> >
> > I appreciate your help!
> 
> 
> Thanks John, I'm keeping track of ath9k issues with regards to this kernel here:
> 
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k/RHEL5
> 
> If anyone else finds issues please add a link there.

Cool, thanks!  Also, please remember to Cc me on any new bugs...

John
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