Re: d80211 and iwlwifi

[Matthias Saou <thias spam spam spam spam spam spam spam egg and spam freshrpms net>]

Richard Hughes wrote :

> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:51 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> >  > 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.
> 
> Cool. I'm finding the zd1211rw_d80211 much more stable than the zd121rw
> softmac driver. Plus, ipw3945 has an experimental d80211 driver which
> does not require the userspace regulatory binary.

If you need the firmware for that new ipw3945 driver, it's waiting for
a review over here :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230096
(which is basically waiting for a final agreement on firmware name
space)

Matthias

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