On 07/30/2017 02:40 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
I suppose so, but "upstream" in this case is a hardware
vendor, who is
much less motivated to keep supporting a 10-year-old card than they are
to sell new hardware. The last update to the module source was around
March of 2016. Unfortunately telephony cards in general are way
overpriced for what they do. Maybe patents involved? But this was a $600
PCI card ten years ago, I can't afford to just junk it now. If it
weren't so expensive to replace, I wouldn't even think of trying to keep
running hardware this old.
I've seen similar cards for significantly less than that. And depending
on what you're trying to do, there are other options as well. If you're
interested, email me directly to take it off the list.
A Fedora-related question is wondering whether I can upgrade to F25
and
still keep running an F24 kernel.
I would expect things would keep working. Just be careful that the
kernel you want doesn't get removed during an update. The easiest
method would be to keep the latest kernel and the kernel you want. Any
other kernel packages will need to be removed before doing any updates.