Latest updates to the FC7 kernel

dragoran drago01 at gmail.com
Sat May 5 10:18:13 UTC 2007


Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 14:11 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>   
>> Current version is 1.3132
>>
>> * Thu May 03 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
>> - Add a locking fix to benefit rt2x00
>>
>> * Thu May 03 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
>> - Update git-wireless-dev.patch (fix lockdep spew, zd1211rw-mac80211 fixes)
>> - Remove linux-2.6-zd1211rw-mac80211-queue-limit.patch (obsolete)
>> - Update git-iwlwifi.patch (signal level fixes, iwlwifi -> iwl3945 name change)
>> - Remove git-iwlwifi-fixes.patch (obsolete)
>> - Remove iwlwifi portions of linux-2.6-warnings-inline.patch (obsolete)
>>     
>
> iwl3945 works less than it did before.
>
> NM doesn't work with it at all.
>
> My guess? This has something to do with it:
>
> [root at localhost iwlwifi]# iwlist wlan0 scanning
> Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 22
> of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
> Some things may be broken...
>
> wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
>
> [root at localhost iwlwifi]# ifconfig wlan0 up
> [root at localhost iwlwifi]# iwlist wlan0 scanning
> Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 22
> of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
> Some things may be broken...
>
> wlan0     Scan completed :
>           Cell 01 - Address: 97:BD:00:00:00:00
>                     ESSID:""
> Segmentation fault
> [root at localhost iwlwifi]#
>
> I'm running rawhide, wireless-tools-28-2.fc7.x86_64 on my IBMovo T60.
>
>   
see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238657
seems that its a wireless-tools bug




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