[PlanetCCRMA] CentOS 5 RT Kernel and IPW3945

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 14:03 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 16:17 -0400, Roy Vestal wrote:
> > I am running CentOS 5 on a Thinkpad T60. I used the how to
> > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installation_CentOS_5_on_a_Thinkpad_T60 to
> > install (notice the author ;)  ).
> > 
> > I installed planetccrma-repo-1.1-1.el5.ccrma from
> > http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/centos/linux/planetccrma/5/i386/ and ran "yum install planetccrma-core".
> > 
> > When I rebooted into the RT kernel, my wireless doesn't work. Since I
> > don't use anything but wireless this is a problem for me. :P
> > 
> > Anyway, I tried to recompile ipw3945-1.2.1 and ipw3945-1.2.2 and they
> > both fail. When I reboot into the previous kernel (2.6.18-53.1.6.el5)
> > the files compile fine.
> > 
> > If I boot into the previous kernel, the wireless works fine. RT kernel,
> > wpa_supplicant barks and SIGFAILS on eth1 (my wireless). 
> 
> Sorry, I never built the ipw3945 modules for the centos kernel...
> 
> > Suggestions where to start?
> 
> I'll start a new build of the latest rt kernel for centos which includes
> the iwl3945 module that seems to work fine with my T61. 

Arnaud: when you get a chance, I got a new build done of the kernel for
centos 5, if you could test it and it works we could release it...

-- Fernando