ipw3945 in FC6

[dragoran]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 03:31:56PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>   
>> There was kernel module rpms in atrpms but the last one I saw compiled
>> was ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2543.fc6.i686 which works just fine for me
>> but there haven't been any updates to that kernel module for some
>> time.
>>     
>
> 2630 builds were uploaded almost a week ago:
>
> http://atrpms.net/dist/fc6/ipw3945/
> http://atrpms.net/dist/fc6/ipw3945-testing/
> http://atrpms.net/dist/common/ipw3945-ucode/
> http://atrpms.net/dist/common/ipw3945d/
>
> They have bene confiremd to work with FC6. Note that you will have to
> take care of the modutils-calls-daemon-at-modprobe-time youself, the
> packages only place the bits at the proper places, they don't touch
> your modprobe.conf. See the ipw3945 documentation on how to do that.
>
>
>   
>> Peter
>>
>> On 9/15/06, dragoran <dragoran at feuerpokemon.de> wrote:
>>     
>>> Will the fc6 final kernel have this module enabled (build) ?
>>> The current rawhide on seems not to have it. Any reason for this?
>>> Note: I am only talking about the kernel module not the userspace daemon
>>> and firmware.
>>>
>>>       
>
>   
ok thx will test them when I get my new latop in 2 weeks; but why isn't 
the kernel module not in the default kernel?