On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 04:25:55PM -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > I have read some good news(I hope), that Atheros will be releasing > some new drivers for Atheros based wireless. I hope that it will be > better than the ath5k which was ported from OpenBSD and then fixed! > How soon can we see this new driver in Fedora? I'll try not to sound snarky... Previously I would have said you could expect ath9k in Fedora nearly as soon as it is upstream, so nearly immediately. Unfortunately, a combination of unfortunate bugs and questionable changes to how Fedora kernels were being released (automatic release after just +3 in Bodhi?!?!?) caused that practice to become untenable. So I agreed to slow-down the flow of wireless patches into Fedora. FWIW I think the kernel release process has been changed a bit for the better in the mean time, but the agreement to slow the wireless patches remains in place. With that in mind, the earlies you will see ath9k in Fedora is most likely F10. Rawhide users will probably see it a bit sooner of course. Those desperate to see it a bit sooner should investigate the compat-wireless project, although it may have problems working with current Fedora kernels -- what a mess... Hth! John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
