What does kernel 2.6.27 bring for Artheros AR5007 users?

[Jim]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>>>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
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>>>>> The ath_pci driver is very falky on a notebook on which I installed
>>>>> Fedora + Livna. I was expecting that ath5k in 2.6.27 would bring
>>>>> AR5007 support, but I saw nothing about it here:
>>>>> http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_27
>>>>>
>>>>> How are other Fedora dealing with the AR5007 wifi card?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> I'm using a eeepc with the AR5007EG wifi and kernels-2.6.27 in FC10 work
>>>> great.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> What did you use before 2.6.27?
>>>
>>>       
>> The madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz driver, but I'm sure it's changed to a
>> different number by now.
>> While I was using FC9 , I went to Redhat Rawhide and got a Kernel-2.6.27 and
>> installed on FC9 and it worked
>> without any problems.
>> I'm using kernel-2.6.27-0.398.rc9.fc10.i686, If you should choose to go that
>> way, be sure you get the kernel-devel, kernel-headers,  from rawhide, just
>> in case you should have to compile anything.
>> I switch to FC10-test because they have a lot of improvements to KDE.
>> The 2.6.27 kernels have fixes for most or all Atheros chipsets, it also
>> fixed my Webcam
>> So I have got a  eeePC 702, with all hardware working in FC10.
>> Send me your Email and I will attach an forward  the
>> madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz driver to you. I still have it on my PC.
>>     
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> No need for the attachment, I have that madwifi via Livna (RPM)  and
> its 'ok' but is very flaky. It either doesn't resume after suspend, or
> stalls the machine on suspend. And randomly doesn't work on some
> boots.
>
> I was going to pull in .27 from rawhide, but I saw it was pulling in
> some packages for update which I was not familiar with so I aborted
> that process. May have to give it a try again.
>
>
>   
Do you use Yumex ?
Yumex will let you select only the packages you want.
The only packages that the kernel should want to pull are  kernel-devel, 
kernel-headers, kernel-firmware, kernel-oops .
Here is a mirror you can download the packages you want, one at a time.

ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-Beta/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/