mac80211 and iwlwifi (was Re: d80211 and iwlwifi)

[Richard Hughes]

On 04/03/07, John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:35:10PM -0500, eric magaoay wrote:
> > John W. Linville wrote:
> > >I have test kernels w/ iwlwifi here:
> > >
> > >     http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fc7/
> > >
> > >If you have ipw3945 hardware, please give them a try.  You will need
> > >to get the firmware from here:
> > >
> > >     http://intellinuxwireless.org
> > >
> > >YMMV...I haven't been able to make it work yet on my Sony Vaio...
> > >
> > >Send the bug reports (and patches!) to me...thanks!
> > >
> > >John
> > >
> >
> > John,
> >
> > Will zd1211rw (zydas) module be included into the latest FC devel.
> > build? I tried to git clone your wireless-2.6 a couple of days ago for
> > testing but failed to complete due checksum error.
>
> It should be there already, both the mac80211 version and the previous
> version.  You may wish to blacklist the one that you don't want.

I think the zd1211rw and softmac drivers ought to be disabled in the
.config for FC7 release, else both drivers get loaded on boot. I also
think the iwlwifi driver should be added to the rawhide kernel, as the
worst case scenario is that already-not-working hardware does not
work. Best case scenario is that the hardware just works.

Richard.