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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:08:13 -0600
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Hi Steve,
Which driver and firmware are you using?
Is it this kernel and firmware I just pushed out?
Troy

Steven Timm wrote:
> I would be interested if anyone else with an iwl4965 driver tries
> the new driver/firmware and sees their machine lock up from time to time.
> In the presence of certain wireless access points (mostly in
> Fermilab's Feynman Computing CenteR) my machine locks
> up after about 10 minutes, unless I turn my wireless kill switch off.
> In other situations mine is fine.
> 
> Steve Timm
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> There is a new security kernel out for SL5.
>> It is based off the new kernel from Update 3, and hense, has all it's 
>> changes, including driver updates.
>> I'm still a little nervous about pushing this out, so I'd like it to be 
>> tested a bit more.
>> One of the new changes that it has is updated Intel Wireless drivers.
>> I have the Updated Firmware for these in the same testing area.
>> I have also included new Intel Firmware we didn't have before, because it 
>> appeared to have the drivers in the kernel now.
>> I also have the new aufs in that directory.
>>
>> To test
>>
>> SL5
>> -------
>>         yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update kernel\*
>>
>> or download
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/kernel/
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/kernel/
>>
>> New Things in the directory
>> aufs
>> kernel-module-aufs
>>
>> xfs-filesystem
>> kernel-module-xfs
>>
>> iwlwifi-3945-ucode
>> iwlwifi-4965-ucode
>> iwlwifi-5000-ucode
>>
>> Thanks
>> Troy
>> --


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