Thanks Akemi, Phil, for all the assistance.However, still no success. Regards,
William. >________________________________ > From: Phil Perry <[email protected]> >To: "[email protected]" ><[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 8:09 AM >Subject: Re: WiFi driver broken w/update > >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. > > >
