[PlanetCCRMA] Rolling a custom RT kernel

Roy Vestal rvestal at trilug.org
Tue Dec 23 13:38:59 PST 2008


The applet supports wpa, but the iwi3945 driver that's part of the  
kernel doesn't support wpa. That's my problem. :(

On Dec 19, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Ken Ellinwood wrote:

> 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
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> --- 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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