On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:21 PM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings, > > RHEL5.5 is scheduled for a broad update of wireless LAN bits. > This includes updates to the cfg80211 and the mac80211 subsystems, > and the ath5k, iwl3945, iwl4965, iwl5000, rt2400pci, rt2500pci, > rt2500usb, rt61pci, rt73usb, rtl8180, and rtl8187 drivers, as well as > the addition of the iwl1000, and iwl6000 drivers and the core of the > rfkill subsystem. For good measure, ath9k _may_ be added as well. > This represents a very large mass of code, and any extra testing is > most welcome. > > Preliminary RHEL5 kernels with these wireless bits are available here: > > http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel5/ > > I have been using them with iwl4965, iwl5000, iwl6000, and ath9k > hardware here with very satisfactory results. I would appreciate > your help testing not only on this hardware but whatever other bits > of the aforementioned hardware that you may have. > > If you have a wireless LAN enabled box running RHEL5 (or CentOS 5 or > other equivalent) then please give these kernels a try. When you find > problems, please open a bug against RHEL5.5 at bugzilla.redhat.com > and Cc: me on the bug. Remember, the surest way to avoid a bug in > RHEL5.5 is to find it before it is released, and the surest way to > avoid a bug in CentOS is to keep it out of RHEL... :-) > > I appreciate your help! Thanks John, I'm keeping track of ath9k issues with regards to this kernel here: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k/RHEL5 If anyone else finds issues please add a link there. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
