First steps of the transition from Livna to RPM Fusion begins now for livna-devel users!

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 15.10.2008 12:13, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>> Find below a cut'n'pasted and slightly enhanced version of a post from my
>>>> blog FYI:
>>>>
>>>> As you'll likely have heard by now: RPM Fusion ( http://rpmfusion.org ),
>>>> the
>>>> merger of Dribble, Freshrpms and Livna gets closer to its official
>>>> release/start. Most of the packages from Livna have been imported and
>>>> build
>>>> for RPM Fusion already, hence we now begin to slowly move users from
>>>> Livna
>>>> over to RPM Fusion by activating the RPM Fusion free and nonfree rawhide
>>>> repos for users of livna's devel branch *now*.
>>>> [...]
>>> Is there any chance of getting all the kmod packages rebuilt against
>>> the the current 2.6.27-3 release? The rest of the packages I've tested
>>> look great, its just some of the kmod ones I can't.
>> I build the kmods for the kernel that were shipped with the beta. If you
>> follow rawhide then you might want to install the akmod-packages (e.g.
>> akmod-nvidia); then the akmods scripts will automatically build new kmod
>> packages when you install a new kernel-install (or during boot); that's
>> similar to how dkms does it.
>>
>> The plan is to rebuild all kmods in RPM Fusion for the latest rawhide kernel
>> automatically once a week (likely on each Sunday) to make sure they still
>> compile (and for users with slow netbooks, where you don't want to compile
>> modules); but I haven't got around to set that up yet, sorry.
> 
> The netbook wifi drivers were what I was after as my netbook [...]

I suppose you own a 1st gen EeePC? If yes, then give the ath5k driver 
from 2.6.27 a try, as it should support the wireless chips in those Eee 
PCs afaik.

CU
knurd