Re: Fedora Kernel question

[Sarah <worldwise001@gmail.com>]

Re: wifi compatibility; as it turns out, the Broadcom 4312 chipset is
having its driver still written/ported over to the new mac80211 stack.
Chances are, if it's only partially supported in your kernel version
now, it will probably be fully supported in the near future. (AFAIK,
Ad-hoc mode was available in the mac80211 stack 2.6.30+?)

From wireless.kernel.org:

14e4:4312 | supported (802.11g only) | BCM4312 | a/b/g | ? | b43
14e4:4312 | not supported - ID is duplicated | BCM4312 | b/g | ? | b43
14e4:4315 | supported 2.6.32 and later | BCM4312 | b/g | LP | b43

As for looking for Fedora 11 old kernel updates... now there's a
daunting task. It seems even the mirrors of fedora erase all previous
packages...

Do you have any idea of what specifically is causing the machine to lock up?

Cheers,
-Sarah

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Jason Smith <jvsmith@digitalmatter.us> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I received for Christmas an HP Mini 311. Has an Atom 270 processor with the
> Nvidia ION chipset. Works well, I like it, but there are some compatibility
> issues with Linux. It unfortunately has one of the Broadcom 802.11 b/g
> chipsets, 4312 I believe, that is only partially supported. I could not get
> Fedora 12 to boot. Most of the time it locked up when udev started. Neither
> do any of the recent rawhide live images boot. The most recent Fedora that
> boots is Fedora 11. I installed Fedora 11 with the original release
> kernel-PAE-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686. After I went through and had all the
> updates run kernel-PAE-2.6.30.10-105.fc11.i686 was installed. That kernel
> also locks the machine up on boot up.
>
> What I'm looking for is all the kernels that have ran through the Fedora
> update system between the original kernel and the one currently now in
> updates for Fedora 11. I've looked through the fedoraproject.org website and
> done some google searches but no luck. Does anyone know where I can find
> these Fedora 11 update kernel packages?
>
> I did open a bugzilla report on the issue,
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551747. But would like to be
> able to provide as much information as possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
> --
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> jvsmith at digitalmatter.us
>
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