Re: Broadcom wifi drivers in F-14?

2010-09-14 Thread John W. Linville
sed to indemnify and defend > Broadcom from all related third-party lawsuits. They fixed that though, > and I merged it. Nevertheless, everyone I know that has reviewed the newly released driver code is being treated for eye cancer. I wouldn't expect to see it in F-14. John -- John W

Re: Broadcom wifi drivers in F-14?

2010-09-15 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:39:48PM -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: > On 09/14/2010 10:13 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:31:44PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > >>On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 00:40 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > >>>IIRC they require a fi

Re: Broadcom wifi drivers in F-14?

2010-09-15 Thread John W. Linville
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 08:49:46AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:09:58 -0400, > "John W. Linville" wrote: > > > > AIUI, they main technical reason that they were finally willing to > > open-up was that they were able to add some

Re: Broadcom wifi drivers in F-14?

2010-09-16 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:13:25AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:31:44PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 00:40 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > IIRC they require a firmware blob that has a license that we cannot > > &

Re: THREE Days Remain to Fix Fedora 14 Blocker Bugs

2010-10-13 Thread John W. Linville
hardware he is using is increasingly uncommon. John -- John W. LinvilleThe truth will set you free, but first it will linvi...@redhat.com make you miserable. -- James A. Garfield ___ devel-announce mail

Re: iwlwifi still hangs, clunky workaround

2012-04-27 Thread John W. Linville
t I dont have to throw the hardware switch > back and forth on the laptop to recover. > > If there is more debug info I can get someone, let me know > > Paul > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: RealTek 8191SEvB wifi

2011-03-03 Thread John W. Linville
mal? really?), it looks like the pci id for the device in question is 10EC:8172. Unfortunately, none of the current rtlwifi sub-drivers claim that ID. So 2.6.38 will not support that device and 2.6.39 probably won't either. :-( John -- John W. LinvilleThe truth will s

Re: RealTek 8191SEvB wifi

2011-03-03 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:39:26PM +0100, Jos Vos wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:27:45AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > > > If I correctly interpret the data from smolt (which reports pci ids > > in decimal? really?), it looks like the pci id for the device in > &g

Re: wireless-tools is DEPRECATED

2011-03-29 Thread John W. Linville
wireless drivers have been ported to mac80211 yet > <http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers>. Yes, sadly, that is correct. John -- John W. LinvilleThe truth will set you free, but first it will linvi...@redhat.com make you miserable. -- James A. G

Re: Missing iwl5150-firmware package?

2010-01-28 Thread John W. Linville
i&n=downloads. > > Just a heads up that iwl5150-firmware has been reviewed at > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558550 and built for F11, > F12 and Rawhide. Thanks John for putting the package together so > quickly after my initial request! Heh...sorry for not realizing we

Re: Fedora 12: Make Dell machines boot again

2010-04-05 Thread John W. Linville
ting as soon as possible. Thanks, Felix. I have created the update. Since I created the problem for the b44 people in kernel -90, I wanted to be sure to get some positive test reports before pushing the -94 update. I apologize for the extended delay over the weekend! John -- John W. Linville

Fedora crda To wireless-regdb Upgrade

2018-07-20 Thread John W. Linville
ess-regdb upgrade effort need a Feature page (or similar) in Fedora? Since crda is a "critical path" component, what special considerations need to be accommodated in order to replace it with wireless-regdb? Thoughts? John -- John W. Linvilleā€œThe worst pain...to have i