[PlanetCCRMA] CentOS 5 RT Kernel and IPW3945

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 14:53 -0400, Roy Vestal wrote:
> Follow up:
> 
> Kernels >= 2.6.24 come with iwl3945. These drivers work fine for wep or 
> open connections but do not for WPA and WPA2 as of yet. So the kernel 
> that Fernando has compiled won't work for me since I need WPA.
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2007-10/msg00499.html As 
> an example.
> 
> Soooo....
> 
> i just compiled my own "rt" kernel and it sorta works. It is 2.6.23.1 
> kernel with the patch-2.6.23.1-rt11 from the rt project. I followed 
> their example and compiled it with my .config based on the current 
> working kernel. Long story short, it compiled and boots, ipw3945 from 
> rpmforge works fine. HOWEVER, the only way to use rt is to run jack, and 
> the other programs, as root.
> 
> Now in Fernando's kernel, it works fine as a user. But in my home-brewed 
> kernel it didn't. What did I miss?

That is strange, it should not matter which kernel you use. Realtime
access should depend on the settings in /etc/security/limits.conf.
Specially if you started from a known good .config file. 

-- Fernando


> 
> Yet another example that Fernando is the man!
> 
> Roy Vestal wrote:
> > Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale wrote:
> >   
> >> Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> writes:
> >>
> >>   
> >>     
> >>> I just tried kernel-rt-2.6.24.3-1.rt1.2.el5.ccrma.i686.rpm. The iwl3945 
> >>> drivers don't work for me. :(
> >>>     
> >>>       
> >> There is a newer version in the works, this is the one Fernando was
> >> speaking about. I can install it on my test workstations tomorrow but
> >> I don't have wireless hardware on these.
> >>
> >>   
> >>     
> > I'd be happy to test it myself. Can I download this somewhere? I don't 
> > see it in the repo yet.