Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:48:00 -0500
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: RFT bcm43xx: Really _GOOD_ news
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On Tuesday 06 February 2007 17:29, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 16:37 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> That's great Larry.  Now how long does it take to get this into a
>> distro's
>> update kernel queue?  Or do I have to build a kernel for my lappy,
>> currently on FC5?
>
>Gene, I think it would be better for all of us if we don't bother Larry
>with such questions and let him discover the secrets of the 802.11g
>rates :)
>
Probably, Larry seems to be the only one with the urge that's for sure.  
And, darnit, I keep forgetting to say thank you, Larry.

>I think that patch has a good chance to get into Fedora 7 from the
>beginning.  We may see it in Fedora Core 6 if it goes to Linux 2.6.20
>and this patch goes to the 2.6.20.x branch before that.

2.6.20 is out now, I'm running it on this box for the last 50+ hours.  So 
make it for 2.6.21 maybe.

>I think the best we can do now would be to test the driver and report
>the results.  This would speed up the process of getting the patch to
>the kernel.  Yes, that means recompiling the kernel.

-- 
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