d80211 and iwlwifi

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Mon Feb 26 19:51:09 UTC 2007


On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:41:25AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
 > On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 06:54 +0100, Tanguy Eric wrote:
 > > Le samedi 24 février 2007 à 21:35 -0500, John W. Linville a écrit :
 > > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 11:18:40PM +0100, Tanguy Eric wrote:
 > > > > Le samedi 24 février 2007 à 21:56 +0000, Mike Cohler a écrit :
 > > > > > I hope this is not a repeat question but is it planned to have d80211
 > > > > > and iwlwifi in the F7 release?
 > > > > > 
 > > > > > If so is it planned to put these into updates for FC6 at some point?
 > > > > > 
 > > > > For the d80211 stack it will be in the kernel when it will be ready but
 > > > 
 > > > It is in rawhide as of today, and it should be upstream in -mm soon.
 > > > 
 > > > > if i remember well there was 2 stacks, one from intel and an other one.
 > > > 
 > > > I think you are confused by the fact that Intel is packaging a
 > > > snapshot of the stack to enable their driver on older kernels.
 > > > This should not be necessary for us.
 > > 
 > > Thanks for the explanation. Will these kernels be available for fc-6 ?
 > > These kernels contains the free ralink driver rt2x00 ?
 > 
 > I'd hope d80211 and the associated drivers are _not_ shipped for FC6
 > (unless in testing) until they have settled down quite a bit.  They
 > still have quite a lot of maturing to do.

Right, the current plan is F7+ only for d80211.

		Dave

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