Re: Fedora wifi: Specifying 2.4 or 5.8 GHz

2009-12-16 Thread John W. Linville
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Re: Fedora wifi: Specifying 2.4 or 5.8 GHz

2009-12-16 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:03:54AM +1030, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 09:27 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: I'm sorry, but I don't think there is a very user friendly way to do what you want other than using different SSIDs. Sounds like something NetworkManager should be doing

Re: F12 Wireless disabled with kernel 2.6.31.6-162

2009-12-08 Thread John W. Linville
thoroughly (and/or open a bugzilla entry)? John -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi...@redhat.com of your literate lifestyle. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora

Re: Obtaining an RPM for the proper old atheros madwifi driver, not ath5k

2009-12-04 Thread John W. Linville
ath5k. John -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi...@redhat.com of your literate lifestyle. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Re: ath5k access point in Fedora 12

2009-12-03 Thread John W. Linville
for wireless request Set Mode (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. Master mode is not available with mac80211-based drivers. You need to run hostapd: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/modes Hth! John -- John W. LinvilleLinux

Re: Wi-Fi Interface Question

2009-10-30 Thread John W. Linville
ath5k or iwlagn). 2.6.33 will introduce ethtool support for mac80211-based wireless devices (which is most of them). Prior to that, 'ls -l /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/driver' is at least minimally informative. Hth! John -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi

Re: [Workaround-ed] Fedora 11: power-on the Broadcom BCM4312 WiFi causes kernel panic with system freeze after some delay

2009-10-28 Thread John W. Linville
needing to use the wl driver. John -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi...@redhat.com of your literate lifestyle. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines

Re: [Workaround-ed] Fedora 11: power-on the Broadcom BCM4312 WiFi causes kernel panic with system freeze after some delay

2009-10-28 Thread John W. Linville
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 08:45:08PM +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 8:30 PM, John W. Linville linvi...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 07:54:02PM +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Athmane Madjoudj athma...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Wi-Fi Question

2009-10-27 Thread John W. Linville
/rfkill, but this path does not exist on my system. Instead, it should try to open path /sys/class/rfkill. No, it shouldn't -- not the same thing. As Peter Jones pointed-out, you need a newer kernel for that tool to work. Hth... John -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread John W. Linville
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Re: Network bug - iwlagn OOPS ?

2009-07-28 Thread John W. Linville
Added to this bz: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511128 Probably would be even better if the bug creator would not have assigned what is clearly a kernel problem to the iwlwifi-firmware component... -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi

Re: Wirelsess N Draft 2 Mini PCI Card

2009-07-20 Thread John W. Linville
Module, Atheros XSPAN AR9160+9106, MB82 Listed on URL http://www.sparklan.com/product_details.php?prod_id=188 ath9k...the driver will load automatically if the device is supported... -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi...@redhat.com of your

Re: rt2860 driver in fc11

2009-07-14 Thread John W. Linville
to the rt2x00 driver family in the upstream kernel. John -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi...@redhat.com of your literate lifestyle. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-07-10 Thread John W. Linville
you (or anyone) tried the 4.150.10.5 firmware? It should be compatible with current Fedora kernels for some time. Support for the older firmware is still officially slated to be dropped upstream, FWIW... John -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi...@redhat.com

Wireless summit at FUDCon in Berlin -- thanks!

2009-07-01 Thread John W. Linville
anticipate lots of productive email between now and then! Thanks! John -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi...@redhat.com of your literate lifestyle. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

2009-06-30 Thread John W. Linville
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Re: Fedora 11 wireless-tools yum erase?

2009-06-21 Thread John W. Linville
,users-docs) This is a wired desktop, that has absolutely no need for wireless If a tool needs something to perform one of its functions it needs it. There isn't a anaconda-no-wireless package, etc. Hth... John -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi...@redhat.com

Re: FC10 and NDISwrapper

2009-05-07 Thread John W. Linville
/Drivers/b43#firmwareinstallation Hth! John P.S. Note that you don't dig it out of Windows, and that the firmware to use does not depend on either your host CPU or the exact wireless hardware. Instead it depends on the kernel version and the driver in use (i.e. b43 vs b43legacy). -- John W

please build F-10 and F-11 for back-port ath9k: Fix FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC handling

2009-05-06 Thread John W. Linville
SSIA -- requesting here rather than building myself to assuage concerns of overloading Koji... John -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi...@redhat.com of your literate lifestyle. ___ Fedora-kernel

Re: please build F-10 and F-11 for back-port ath9k: Fix FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC handling

2009-05-06 Thread John W. Linville
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:48:27AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: SSIA -- requesting here rather than building myself to assuage concerns of overloading Koji... Sorry, got impatient... -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi...@redhat.com

Re: plea for tar-1.21

2009-04-14 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 02:58:31PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 09 April 2009, John W. Linville wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:14:42PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Please, either stabilize the device mapping (BTW, how did you do that when I didn't even reboot?) or give us

Re: Tar-1.20, as shipped by F10 question

2009-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
running so I have to assume its getting to the tar invocation ok. I don't see any reference to --no-device-check. However, --no-check-device seem to be there... :-) John -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi...@redhat.com of your literate lifestyle

Re: plea for tar-1.21

2009-04-09 Thread John W. Linville
a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com for this update? tar-1.22 is in F-11. It should be no problem to get a version in F-10. I'll be happy to do it, presuming that the package owner grants me sufficient privilege to do so. John -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi

Re: crash with iwl3945/iwlagn; fix is in 2.6.28, can it be provided to 2.6.27?

2009-01-28 Thread John W. Linville
hard panics requiring reboot within 1-2 minutes of the wireless interface being enabled. IIRC, it will take some porting for 2.6.27. Is there an F-10-2_6_27 fork somewhere? John -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi...@redhat.com of your literate

Re: Use Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] (bcmwl5)

2008-12-08 Thread John W. Linville
-connection now. Can someone help me getting connected via wireless. Thanks in advance. gr Arno Did you install firmware for your device? http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 Hth! John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: KDE 4.1.2 released... next new feature release will be Jan 09... F8 implications.

2008-10-06 Thread John W. Linville
use it or who use it differently than most everyone else. Sorry if this sounds like a rant... John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org

Re: How is KDE4 supposed to be used ?

2008-10-06 Thread John W. Linville
their location within the panel? Mine seem to pick where the want to be and you have to just accept it. -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Re: How is KDE4 supposed to be used ?

2008-10-06 Thread John W. Linville
make your plasma widget spin around, even mounting your clock at an angle! How this is useful, I cannot fathom...but you can do it! John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: How is KDE4 supposed to be used ?

2008-10-06 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 07:19:21PM +0100, Steve Searle wrote: Around 04:07pm on Monday, October 06, 2008 (UK time), John W. Linville scrawled: And how do you control their location within the panel? Mine seem to pick where the want to be and you have to just accept it. Left click

Re: KDE-SIG

2008-10-01 Thread John W. Linville
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 10:13:48AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: ... I double-DOG-dare ya! ... I TRIPLE-dog-dare ya! (1) (1) bonus points for who get's the movie reference first :) You'll shoot your eye out, kid... -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list

Re: de-modularising for the win!

2008-09-19 Thread John W. Linville
ACK all the non-wireless bits! :-) John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list

Re: RFC: split changelog out of spec

2008-08-18 Thread John W. Linville
or look in the srpm/cvs/etc to see what's changed. This would just confuse user and is inconsistent with the rest of the distro... I presume the rpm command would still work, so I would see no harm in adding the changelog as a %doc (if/when it is broken-out from the spec file). John -- John W

Re: When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?

2008-08-06 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:05:33PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: John W. Linville wrote: I still think that for continuity's sake f8 and f9 should continue to get wireless fixes from 2.6.27. Those should only be specific bug fixes (although I suppose there is still time for a new driver), so

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-01 Thread John W. Linville
want to try 'modprobe -r rt73usb ; modprobe rt73usb' or simply reboot. Hth! John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?

2008-07-31 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:37:10AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: So, here is what I propose: -- continue the current practice until 2.6.26 is released and the 2.6.27 merge window closes; -- after that, continue the current practice for updating rawhide; but, -- once F9 (and presumably

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

2008-07-28 Thread John W. Linville
kernels -- what a mess... Hth! John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

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

2008-07-28 Thread John W. Linville
may have been justified. And -86? And -55? Seems like there was another as well.. Perhaps we need to do security fixes through a different process, rather than just rushing-out security fixes on top of whatever is in HEAD whether it has been tested by users or not... John -- John W. Linville

Re: iwl4965 ht/802.11n

2008-07-08 Thread John W. Linville
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Re: iwl4965 ht/802.11n

2008-07-08 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 07:04:45AM -0700, Jason Newton wrote: Again, I'm a newbie but it seems that CONFIG_IWL4965_HT is present in both compat-wireless-2008-07-08 and vanilla 2.6.26-rc9 or am I not looking upstream enough You are not. -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?

2008-07-07 Thread John W. Linville
requirements. But they are all upstream material. The only patch I've added to Fedora that does not meet this definition is the one for the at76_usb driver, which is a special case. I'm happy to discuss at76_usb separately if someone so wishes. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: iwl3945 not working with lastest kernel update

2008-07-07 Thread John W. Linville
wireless code to build on the F-9 base kernel. The kernels here have that corrected (thanks to Stefan Becker): http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=54855 You may wish to try them, and mark them in Bodhi if a request exists there yet. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: iwl3945 not working with lastest kernel update

2008-07-07 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 04:14:42PM -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:44 AM, John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 06:20:57PM -0700, Jeff Gustafson wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 07:43 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote: Jeff Gustafson wrote

Re: iwl3945 not working with lastest kernel update

2008-07-03 Thread John W. Linville
people are having the same problem. Oddly, the rawhide kernels with the equivalent wireless bits do _not_ seem to share the problem. Working on it... John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: kernel renames wlan to eth

2008-02-27 Thread John W. Linville
you are using an HWADDR line in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list

Re: ipw2200 net device's name issue

2006-03-16 Thread John W. Linville
for analysis...thanks! John -- John W. Linville linvi...@tuxdriver.com

Fedora-netdev FC4: kernel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.netdev.3 is now available!

2005-11-30 Thread John W. Linville
([EMAIL PROTECTED]), provided that they are bugs which are not present in the corresponding official Fedora kernel. Thanks! -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list