[PlanetCCRMA] Rolling a custom RT kernel

Roy Vestal rvestal at trilug.org
Fri Dec 19 11:29:11 PST 2008


Cool thanks. Does the FC8 kernel support WPA or only WEP?  This is my  
work laptop too so I have to have WPA for the office.
On Dec 18, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Ken Ellinwood wrote:

> Roy,
>
> I did this recently for the same reason, but FYI I later abandoned  
> CentOS 5 in favor of FC8 due to application stability problems.  To  
> my surprise, the CCRMA RT kernel for FC8 supports the Intel 3945  
> wireless card.  I got it working with no trouble using the Gnome  
> network manager applet.  So if you can, I recommend FC8+CCRMA.
>
> But regardless, building the RT kernel isn't difficult.  I think  
> this is what you want:
>
> http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RT_PREEMPT_HOWTO
>
> Ken
>
> --- On Thu, 12/18/08, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>> From: Roy Vestal
>> Subject: [PlanetCCRMA] Rolling a custom RT kernel
>> To: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
>> Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 1:00 PM
>> I was wanting to roll a custom CentOS 5 kernel, 2.6.23, for
>> my laptop.
>> I need to stay at 2.6.23 for the ipw3945d drivers, as I
>> need WPA and
>> the iwi drivers don't support it.
>>
>> Does anyone have a link to a how to?  I'm comfortable
>> building my own
>> kernels. I've just never built an RT kernel before.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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