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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:50:28 -0800
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Subject: Re: [internal-ath9k-devel] RHEL5.5 (and Centos 5.5!) wireless updates
	needs broad testing...
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, centos@centos.org,
	ipw3945@lists.sourceforge.net, ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
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On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:21 PM, John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> RHEL5.5 is scheduled for a broad update of wireless LAN bits.
> This includes updates to the cfg80211 and the mac80211 subsystems,
> and the ath5k, iwl3945, iwl4965, iwl5000, rt2400pci, rt2500pci,
> rt2500usb, rt61pci, rt73usb, rtl8180, and rtl8187 drivers, as well as
> the addition of the iwl1000, and iwl6000 drivers and the core of the
> rfkill subsystem.  For good measure, ath9k _may_ be added as well.
> This represents a very large mass of code, and any extra testing is
> most welcome.
>
> Preliminary RHEL5 kernels with these wireless bits are available here:
>
>        http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel5/
>
> I have been using them with iwl4965, iwl5000, iwl6000, and ath9k
> hardware here with very satisfactory results.  I would appreciate
> your help testing not only on this hardware but whatever other bits
> of the aforementioned hardware that you may have.
>
> If you have a wireless LAN enabled box running RHEL5 (or CentOS 5 or
> other equivalent) then please give these kernels a try.  When you find
> problems, please open a bug against RHEL5.5 at bugzilla.redhat.com
> and Cc: me on the bug.  Remember, the surest way to avoid a bug in
> RHEL5.5 is to find it before it is released, and the surest way to
> avoid a bug in CentOS is to keep it out of RHEL... :-)
>
> I appreciate your help!


Thanks John, I'm keeping track of ath9k issues with regards to this kernel here:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k/RHEL5

If anyone else finds issues please add a link there.

  Luis