[PlanetCCRMA] Rolling a custom RT kernel

Ken Ellinwood kellinwood at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 19 11:35:55 PST 2008


I don't use WPA myself, but it appears to be supported by the gnome network manager applet. I see options for Personal and Enterprise for both WPA and WPA2 in the applet's security type selector widget.

Ken 


--- On Fri, 12/19/08, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:

> From: Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org>
> Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] Rolling a custom RT kernel
> To: kellinwood at yahoo.com
> Cc: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> Date: Friday, December 19, 2008, 11:29 AM
> 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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