Axel Thimm wrote :
> Apart from either convincing the Fedora kernel packagers to
patch
> the current ieee80211 module in the rawhide kernels (not likely, but
> could happen if one of them owns the hardware for instance) or
> waiting for a recent enough version to go into the upstream kernel
> sources, I think you're pretty much stuck. I've packaged the
> firmware and daemon on
freshrpms.net too, but decided that "you're
> on your own" for the kernel modules part for now... not sure which
> is worst between my approach and Axel's, though :-)
What use is it w/o the kernel modules? It's like if you had packaged
alsa-libs w/o packaging the kernel modules at RH9 time (or whenever
the RH kernels didn't have alsa bits in them, RH9 is just a guess).
It gets users half the way, which is better than nothing.
> The proper way to fix this issue is to get the ieee80211 modules
updated
> upstream anyway.
...and when that happens, with also the possible inclusion of the ipw3945
module,
freshrpms.net will already be ready.
Matthias
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