Hi, <div>On 5/24/07, Andy Green <<a href="mailto:andy@warmcat.com">andy@warmcat.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Deependra Shekhawat wrote: > I think iwlwifi atm is not the right candidate to be in the kernel it > really > doesn't work for me. I have lenovo 3000N100 laptop and ipw3945 with source > compilation works great for me. Well, some points - yeah it is not stable here either. But --> - other folks are getting better results. This laptop stays up with wireless for up to 48 hrs with current rawhide kernels before losing association and doing the 100% CPU modprobe -r thing forcing the need of a reboot. Other folks with a shutdown in the evening and boot in the morning pattern might not even see the problem much.</blockquote><div> Well i usually run my laptop on wireless for 3-4 days. This would kill me. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> - ipw3945 is not an option AIUI because the "regulatory daemon" is not licensed in a way that is compatible with Fedora (somehow the closed source firmware is but I guess that devil-supping spoon is long enough) </blockquote><div> Yes I know that ipw3945 can never make it's way into Fedora because of this. And that's why intel guys focus on iwlwifi much. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> - Intel are submitting the iwlwifi/iwl3945 stuff to linux-wireless at the moment and it is getting some serious iterative external review now. It'll probably be accepted soon and that will improve the previous process (handing patchbombs to Linville apparently) somewhat. The Intel folks seem to be continuing to work hard on it too -- so all the signs are that it will continue to improve in the coming months. Therefore because of the importance of wireless to laptop users, and the number of people with 3945s, it is probably a good choice to accept to ship FC7 with a mostly working iwlwifi that will do something reasonable out of the box for many people, and expect to see it improve over the update kernels shipped during FC7 lifetime. Otherwise the choice is to ship nothing, not even mostly-working support, for a large number of laptop users.</blockquote><div> I think it's not stable for F7. Maybe for F8. And one more thing I would like to ask. If I have mac80211 subsystem inside my kernel with iwl3945 and I also use ipw3945 with it's ieee80211 subsystem (which works for me) will it gives any harms ? Thanks </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-Andy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com"> fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- Enjoy Life !