[ATrpms-users] ipw3945 i686 SMP kmdl available?

[John Pedersen]

Thanks Axel

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:05:39PM -0800, John Pedersen wrote:
>   
>> I was about to install FC6 onto my new thinkpad T60p and I double 
>> checked to see that the ipw3945 package I used under FC5 was available 
>> under FC6, and it doesn't seem to be.
>>
>> Under FC5 I am using the 
>> ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp-1.1.0-15.fc5.at.i686.rpm 
>> <http://dl.atrpms.net/all/ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp-1.1.0-15.fc5.at.i686.rpm> 
>> package and it works just fine.  I don't see an equivalent package under 
>> FC6.  In fact the only smp package I see appears to be for powerpc ( 
>> ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6smp-1.1.0-15.fc6.at.ppc.rpm 
>> <http://dl.atrpms.net/all/ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6smp-1.1.0-15.fc6.at.ppc.rpm>  
>> ).  Am I missing something really obvious?  Can anyone point me to the 
>> proper ipw3945 kernel module for an i686 smp processor?
>>     
>
> Yes, the proper kmdl for an i686 smp processor is the one w/o "smp"
> attached.
>
> That's because there is no kernel-smp anymore for i386 and x86_64. The
> normal kernel package already has smp support in it. And since there
> is no kernel-smp, there can't be an kmdl-.*smp either :)
>
> Just go ahead, install FC6 and use the usual setup steps you take and
> all will be OK, e.g. yum install ipw3945-kmdl ipw3945-kmdl-`uname -r`
>   
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