Thanks.. for what it's worth, on my one redhat-licensed laptop (Dell precision), with the new kernel the wifi light works where it never did before, and the audio drivers now work too and I have a beep. Steve On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Troy Dawson wrote: > Steven Timm wrote: >> There's a new errata kernel (2.6.18-164) from RedHat which appears to come >> only with RHEL5/update 4. Presumably that will be available >> whenever SL5.4 is released, is that correct? And what then is >> the schedule to back-port it to the earlier SL5's? >> > > For from email sent to scientific-linux-users with the subject > "SL 5.4 Questions and Answers" > > Q: Will you be releasing the "security" kernel (2.6.18-164.el) that came > out with RHEL 5.4 as a security kernel for the rest of SL 5? > A: No. > RedHat had just released a security kernel before 5.4 was released. > This earlier security kernel addressed the worst security issues. > The first kernel after a minor update tends to do bad things to the > older releases, such as SL 5.0. So we will wait for the next security > kernel, which will also hopefully have the major bugs shaken out. > BUT, we reserve the right to change our mind on this. > > 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.