Now I am up at the latest kernel too, will notify if rogue wireless points take me down again. Steve On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Steven Timm wrote: > > It's the same firmware but one version less of the kernel, 128 rather > than 128.1, will upgrade to 128.1 and see if it is any better. > > Steve Timm > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Troy Dawson wrote: > >> 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 >>>> -- >> >> >> > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525 [log in to unmask] http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Computing Division, Scientific Computing Facilities, Grid Facilities Department, FermiGrid Services Group, Assistant Group Leader.