Bug 240868

Summary: ipw2xxx driver update for 5.1
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Tim Burke <tburke>
Component: kernelAssignee: John W. Linville <linville>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Version: 5.0CC: ddomingo
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2007-0959 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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jwltest-ipw2x00-2_6_22-rc1.patch none

Description Tim Burke 2007-05-22 15:13:52 UTC 
John Linville, John Masters and I were discussing bug #237990 which is about
updating the ipw3945 wireless driver in 5.1.  In the course of that discussion I
questioned whether there should be a similar update to ipw2xxx - to which JohnL
suggested we should.  So, upon that request I am creating this bz to track it
(without any specific detail on the merits of what is in the update).
Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2007-05-22 15:24:38 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 2 John W. Linville 2007-05-22 20:24:55 UTC 
Should this be limited exclusively to "brandable" versions?  Or are upstream 
versions (w/ the accompanying fixes) good enough?
Comment 3 John W. Linville 2007-05-24 15:03:48 UTC 
RHEL5 test kernels w/ ipw2x00 updates available here:

   http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel5/

Anyone care to give them a try? :-)
Comment 4 Jay Turner 2007-06-01 17:54:44 UTC 
Withholding QE ack until we get some testing feedback.
Comment 5 John W. Linville 2007-06-04 18:32:52 UTC 
A couple of days of use on two laptops (one ipw2100, one ipw2200) gives me 
confidence in the backports...
Comment 6 John W. Linville 2007-06-04 18:34:06 UTC 
Created attachment 156107 [details]
jwltest-ipw2x00-2_6_22-rc1.patch
Comment 8 RHEL Program Management 2007-06-04 18:42:07 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Kernel Team for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release, and has moved to bugzilla 
status POST.
Comment 9 Don Zickus 2007-06-18 15:20:46 UTC 
in 2.6.18-28.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2007-11-07 19:49:57 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0959.html