Re: www.channelregister.co.uk Article about RHEL kernel Patches
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:07:55 -0400 Herb Thompson wrote: > Just curious. Does this change in the way Red Hat "publishes" kernel > patches have any adverse consequences for SL? > > http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/red_hat_twarts_oracle_and_novell_with_change_to_source_code_packaging/ No. It's only relevant if you have to patch the RHEL kernel sources, like Oracle does. Scientific Linux (and standard CentOS) kernels are not modified, as patched kernels could (at least in theory) result in less than complete compatibility. There was a little discussion already, in the SL6 release announcement thread.
Re: Scientific Linux 6.0 is officially released
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:57:13 +0100 Urs Beyerle wrote: > > Yes, the LiveCD will come. > > I had to fix a critical bug. I will soon rebuild the LiveCD, announce > it for testing on scientific-linux-devel. If no other showstopper is > found, the LiveCD should be officially released beginning of next > week. > > Cheers, > > Urs By the way, I'd like to make 1 or 2 requests for the mini live cd: wpa-supplicant and wpa_cli, which is a text-mode configuration/control tool that comes along with it. That shouldn't take too much space, and it would allow some folks to use more secure connections or get online with the mini cd. Thanks, Ibidem P.S.: Does anyone know how well SL6 + IceWM work in 1 GB of ram, or what the minimum requirements for that configuration are? I know that RHEL6 lists 1GB as the absolute minimum, so I'd like to check on that.
Anyone tested the RHEL6 kernel with ath5k?
Hello, I've noticed that a few people (or at least one) have mentioned testing RHEl 6 beta 1. Has anyone seen whether ath5k has a bug causing lost wireless and sometimes causing other clients to lose connections? I'm asking about whether this bug affects RHEL6: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13892 Ibidem
Re: (New user) SL 5.4-Any rpms for madwifi-hal?
Well, Those modules didn't get wireless working...and when I tried blacklisting ath5k, the mouse stopped working (?). But I realized that the rpms are for standard madwifi. (I had been asking about a newer version with some different code that allows using AR5007 chipsets, madwifi-hal-10.5.6; it appears that the madwifi-hal rpm is for part of the standard madwifi). So the long and short is that I'll just have to be content or see if the newest RHEL kernel does anything. Thank you, Ibidem On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:47:56 -0600 Troy Dawson wrote: > We have not been providing madwifi for SL 5.4 because of the conflict > it causes with the modules already in the kernel. > But we are providing it for the older releases, so you can always > find the kernel-module-madwifi and kernel-module-madwifi-hal rpm's in > the older releases security updates area. > > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/i386/updates/security/ > If you have the regular 32 bit kernel installed the rpm's would be > here. > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/i386/updates/security/kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/i386/updates/security/kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm > > Troy
(New user) SL 5.4-Any rpms for madwifi-hal?
Hello all, I've recently started using SL 5.4 (installed from mini-livecd) on my Aspire One, with kernels 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 (original) and 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 (updated). Ath5k is functional on the live cd, halfway working on the old kernel, somewhat better on the updated kernel; but it comes nowhere near what the latest ath5k (2.6.31 & 32) can do or what madwifi-hal can do. I've tried installing madwifi, but it did not provide the interfaces (ifconfig did not recognize ath0 and eth1). After looking around, I've found that only madwifi-hal works with my chipset (AR5007), but I can't seem to find a recent (2.6.18-164.11.1) rpm. If I can install an rpm with dkms or kmod, that would be ideal; I'd prefer to avoid compiling it myself. I might have missed something; if so, please point it out. Ibidem
