Is the iwlwifi package going to work in F7?
The current signs aren't great, as my Thinkpad T60p with a ipw3945 wireless still has the oft-reported problems in F7t4.
I'm willing to put some testing time in, but things are a bit discouraging so far, I mean F7t4 is supposed to be a beta release. (Or maybe there is some simple thing that needs to be done to get everything to work, but what is it?)
Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 16:05 -0400, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
Is the iwlwifi package going to work in F7?
It's either going to work or we'll pull it. Sadly, the driver is not in the shape that anyone hoped it would be :(
Jeremy
I have a Thinkpad t60p with the ipw3945 card and using the f7t4 live cd doesn't work very well with the iwlwifi driver. The ipw3945 driver on fc6 on the same machine still works better.
Kevin
On 4/27/07, Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 16:05 -0400, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
Is the iwlwifi package going to work in F7?
It's either going to work or we'll pull it. Sadly, the driver is not in the shape that anyone hoped it would be :(
what about updating to 0.0.14? it has many bugfixes (see changelog)
Jeremy
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On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 23:20 +0200, dragoran dragoran wrote:
On 4/27/07, Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 16:05 -0400, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: > Is the iwlwifi package going to work in F7?
It's either going to work or we'll pull it. Sadly, the driver is not in the shape that anyone hoped it would be :(what about updating to 0.0.14? it has many bugfixes (see changelog)
Doesn't solve the big problem... I was testing with tip of iwlwifi git today and still getting the same oops when scanning while associated. I'm still hoping that we can get the problems worked out, but am less optimistic than I had previously been
Jeremy
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 19:14 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 23:20 +0200, dragoran dragoran wrote:
On 4/27/07, Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 16:05 -0400, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: > Is the iwlwifi package going to work in F7?
It's either going to work or we'll pull it. Sadly, the driver is not in the shape that anyone hoped it would be :(what about updating to 0.0.14? it has many bugfixes (see changelog)
Doesn't solve the big problem... I was testing with tip of iwlwifi git today and still getting the same oops when scanning while associated. I'm still hoping that we can get the problems worked out, but am less optimistic than I had previously been
So in the event things don't work out, will the Fedora tree allow us to use, say, third-party solutions for ipw3945? My kids are starting to forget my face now that I'm tethered to the router in the basement. ;-D
Jeremy Katz wrote:
what about updating to 0.0.14? it has many bugfixes (see changelog)
Doesn't solve the big problem... I was testing with tip of iwlwifi git today and still getting the same oops when scanning while associated. I'm still hoping that we can get the problems worked out, but am less optimistic than I had previously been
have you tryed to fill this bug upstream? it should be better than just hoping for it to fix itself.
On 4/28/07, Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 23:20 +0200, dragoran dragoran wrote:
On 4/27/07, Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 16:05 -0400, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: > Is the iwlwifi package going to work in F7?
It's either going to work or we'll pull it. Sadly, the driver is not in the shape that anyone hoped it would be :(what about updating to 0.0.14? it has many bugfixes (see changelog)
Doesn't solve the big problem... I was testing with tip of iwlwifi git today and still getting the same oops when scanning while associated. I'm still hoping that we can get the problems worked out, but am less optimistic than I had previously been
iwlwifi 0.0.16 (released today and in cvs already) works much better (no mor oops) and even wpa works fine for me. (i tested with 0.0.15 but 0.0.16 only contains additional fixes so it should work even better)
Wonderful Fedor WiFi Folks (wfwf),
I apologize for this sad email - but please help educate us to be better users / bug reporters.
I'm sure I'm not the only one confused by the new world of wifi and what f7 is doing and this site:
http://intellinuxwireless.org/index.php?p=iwlwifi
isn't helping much.
Do we have an f7 wifi page write-up somewhere (you know like the quickstart guide for Xen in FC4, FC5 and FC6) the fedoraproject.org wiki title search for "wifi" finds "0 results out of about 7542 pages."
there's iwlwifi, "the new way," (which uses a mac80211 driver available in the kernel pkgs now (since what rev?)) vs ipw*, "the old FC6/RHEL5 way"
yet we still have ipw2100 and ipw2200 -firmware pkgs?
and we don't have/need the ipw3954-firmware pkg but instead we use the new microcode pkg iwlwifi-ucode which we've renamed iwlwifi-firmware ?
i was going to try to repackage iwlwifi-0.0.16.tgz for myself - but i don't even know what rpm this corresponds to for us.... did we rename this too? arggg... :)
thanks for reading and any feedback. hopefully someone can scribble something up for wifi on the wiki, contrasting old and new drivers, to help take some of the incredible pressure off you all supporting this feature set.
das
--- dragoran dragoran drago01@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/28/07, Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 23:20 +0200, dragoran
dragoran wrote:
On 4/27/07, Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com
wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 16:05 -0400, PeterF. Patel-Schneider
wrote: > Is the iwlwifi package going to workin F7?
It's either going to work or we'll pullit. Sadly, the driver
is not in the shape that anyone hoped it would be:(
what about updating to 0.0.14? it has many
bugfixes (see changelog)
Doesn't solve the big problem... I was testing
with tip of iwlwifi git
today and still getting the same oops when
scanning while associated.
I'm still hoping that we can get the problems
worked out, but am less
optimistic than I had previously been
iwlwifi 0.0.16 (released today and in cvs already) works much better (no mor oops) and even wpa works fine for me. (i tested with 0.0.15 but 0.0.16 only contains additional fixes so it should work even better)
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--- das das_deniz@yahoo.com wrote:
Wonderful Fedor WiFi Folks (wfwf),
i was going to try to repackage iwlwifi-0.0.16.tgz for myself - but i don't even know what rpm this corresponds to for us.... did we rename this too? arggg... :)
it's a kernel module just like the mac80211 driver
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