Re: My Laptop

["John W. Linville" <linville tuxdriver com>]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:12:58PM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 17:00 -0500, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Larry Finger wrote:
> > 
> > > Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> > >>      ...., but I got kernel exceptions, DMA exception, and eventually the
> > >>  system froze.  I would say it is not ready for prime time.  (I will be
> > >>  looking for where to helpfully report the exceptions for those trying to
> > >>  debug the thing.  I suspect donations of relevant hardware are most
> > >>  useful.) No problems with the zd1211 driver and USB key.
> > >
> > > I'm sorry that you had troubles with the BCM94311MCG in your laptop, but I 
> > > think most of your problems are fixed in driver b43 in any of the 2.6.24-rcX 
> > > kernels. In any case, the place to report such problems is 
> > > bcm43xx-dev lists berlios de 
> > 
> > FC8 has 2.6.23.  I suppose FC9 might do the trick.  Or maybe they'll backport
> > some fixes.
> 
> Fedora generally releases kernel updates fairly quickly to track
> upstream (though they have patches to port forward before they are
> ready).  There's no 2.6.24 in updates-testing yet, however.
> kernel-2.6.23.9-85 is there.

Are you looking for wireless patches?  At this moment there are
no wireless bits in wireless-2.6 that are not in the latest Fedora
kernels in Koji.  The last one I built is here:

	http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=27585

Hth!

John
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John W. Linville
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