OT: Atheros releases free Linux driver for Its 802.11n Devices

2008-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear all, I have read some good news(I hope), that Atheros will be releasing some new drivers for Atheros based wireless. I hope that it will be better than the ath5k which was ported from OpenBSD and then fixed! How soon can we see this new driver in Fedora? If I am not mistaken it is named

Re: OT: Atheros releases free Linux driver for Its 802.11n Devices

2008-07-28 Thread John W. Linville
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 04:25:55PM -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > I have read some good news(I hope), that Atheros will be releasing > some new drivers for Atheros based wireless. I hope that it will be > better than the ath5k which was ported from OpenBSD and then fixed! > How soon can we see

Re: OT: Atheros releases free Linux driver for Its 802.11n Devices

2008-07-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Mon, 7/28/08, John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: OT: Atheros releases free Linux driver for Its 802.11n Devices > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "For users of Fedora" > Date: Monday, July

Re: OT: Atheros releases free Linux driver for Its 802.11n Devices

2008-07-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
John W. Linville redhat.com> writes: > automatic release after just +3 in Bodhi?!?!? Bodhi's development version has changed to make this more flexible, it just hasn't hit production yet. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redha

Re: OT: Atheros releases free Linux driver for Its 802.11n Devices

2008-07-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Antonio Olivares yahoo.com> writes: > Why do I ask, because ath5k (does not work)/(did not work) for me, I had to > blacklist it :( Isn't ath9k for different (newer) devices than ath5k? Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.c

Re: OT: Atheros releases free Linux driver for Its 802.11n Devices

2008-07-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
> > Why do I ask, because ath5k (does not work)/(did not > work) for me, I had to > > blacklist it :( > > Isn't ath9k for different (newer) devices than ath5k? > > Kevin Kofler > > -- I believe it is, but here you can find out more information http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Driver

Re: OT: Atheros releases free Linux driver for Its 802.11n Devices

2008-07-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:32:12 -0400, "John W. Linville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Previously I would have said you could expect ath9k in Fedora nearly > as soon as it is upstream, so nearly immediately. Unfortunately, > a combination of unfortunate bugs and questionable changes to > how

Re: OT: Atheros releases free Linux driver for Its 802.11n Devices

2008-07-28 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:57:53AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > Note that some discussions on LWN concerning whether kernel bugs with security > implications were being clearly labelled as such, suggests that the -97 > kernel included security fixes. As such pushing those updates out a bit fast

Re: OT: Atheros releases free Linux driver for Its 802.11n Devices

2008-07-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
John W. Linville redhat.com> writes: > And -86? And -55? Seems like there was another as well.. 2 others... -55 was the WPA problem (the bad wireless-fixups patch), -86 was iwl4965 flakiness (which appears to be fixed in -97). Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@red