On 22/08/12 07:24, Akemi Yagi wrote:

Sorry I meant this link:

http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2012-August/001359.html

But expect the updated version of kmod-compat-wireless to be out real
soon now. :)

Akemi


Just released:

http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2012-August/001390.html

For those not familiar with the compat-wireless project, they backport the wireless branch from the latest stable kernel.

They actually backport a few other bits and pieces too like a few ethernet drivers and some bluetooth bits, and they are in the process of renaming their project to compat-drivers to better reflect that it's not just wireless but I'm going off topic now :-)

Anyway, elrepo packages the compat-wireless project as a kmod for el6.3. The latest version is based on the stable 3.5.1 kernel so backports the complete wireless stack from that kernel. If your wireless device isn't natively supported on SL out of the box then this might be a quick and easy method to see if it's supported by the latest upstream kernel drivers.

If anyone has wireless issues on 6.3 and would like to test this then we'd really appreciate the feedback (preferably on the elrepo list).

Thanks.

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