From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021102 Description of problem: Please integrate the linux-wlan-ng drivers - if not for RH 8.0, for the upcoming 8.1. The prism drivers included in the kernel source tree is useless for a lot of wireless users, and linux-wlan-ng needs to be integrated into the kernel for proper testing in SMP mode to be done; currently it is stable when applied to the standard kernel but not so stable against the Red Hat SMP kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get a Prism 2.5 Wavelan PCI wireless card 2. Try and configure it using the stock RH kernel 3. Try again with the linux-wlan-ng drivers Additional info:
I've got to second this... the linux-wlan-ng drivers cover quite a large fraction of the wireless cards in the wild. This would be a very useful enhancement.
I'll add a third...
And a fourth. While the RH9 orinoco driver "works" for my card, it doesn't seem to be able to handle multiple data streams properly. Test is "while true; do cat /usr/share/dict/words; done" on some remote host in one window, and "ping remote" in another. The ping times crest 1000ms almost immediately, and grow beyond 12000ms before much longer. The same test with the wlan driver fluxuates between 300 and 650ms, but never falls too far behind.
Agreed. I've been very happy with the wlan-ng driver.
Due to the impending EOL of RHL9, it's unlikely this will happen in an errata. How does Fedora fare ?
These drivers are not suitable for kernel inclusion. Please encourage the maintainers to submit wireless drivers to the upstream kernel.