Re: The joys of rawhide returning to form

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On 3/22/06, darrell pfeifer <darrellpf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For the last couple of weeks as rawhide settled into FC5 I had a
> completely working system. Now that the freeze has been lifted for a
> couple of days I yum updated this morning.
>
> Printing broke.
>
> There was a cups update. I think I saw a scriptlet fail. There appears
> to be no default printer. Using the control panel to remove the
> current (USB) printer and remake a new one doesn't help. Test printing
> fails.
>
> X broke
>
> There was an X server update. I have an ATI Radeon R300 so am involved
> in the DRI fray. In previous versions commenting out the load of the
> DRI module worked but in the new version DRI looks like it is still
> attempted and I get the black screen of death. Reverted to the X
> server rpm off the FC5 cd.
>
> ipw2200 broke
>
> There was a kernel upgrade (2074) and now the driver won't load.
> Booted the 2064 kernel which continues to work.

Wahoo!!! New ipw2200 driver in kernel:
Mar 22 14:40:33 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless
2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.1.1

You need the new firmware (3.0 or newer). You can get this from the
usual places, e.g.,:
http://atrpms.net/dist/common/ipw2200-firmware-testing/

>
> So that was no X, no wireless and no printing. Eeeks.
>
> I'll try to file some bug reports when I get a chance.
>
> darrell

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