It Seems Like Yesterday . . .

It seems like yesterday when we read Linus Torvald's claim that he could "no longer comfortably count as high as 40". [1]

The implication was that a linux-2.6.39.x source tarball would be the last of the Linux Version 2, Patch Level 6 series and that Linux Version 3, Patch Level 0 would soon be appearing over "the horizon".

Earlier today the ELRepo Project announced the release of their latest kernel-ml package set for Enterprise Linux 6, kernel-ml-3.3.0-1.el6.elrepo, which also provides a NONPAE kernel version for the 32-bit architecture. [2]

Announcing the release of the kernel-ml-3.3.0-1.el6.elrepo
packages into the EL6 elrepo-kernel repository:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml

The following files are currently syncing to the mirrors:

x86
kernel-ml-3.3.0-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
kernel-ml-devel-3.3.0-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
kernel-ml-headers-3.3.0-1.el6.elrepo.i386.rpm
kernel-ml-NONPAE-3.3.0-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
kernel-ml-NONPAE-devel-3.3.0-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
perf-3.3.0-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm

x86_64
kernel-ml-3.3.0-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
kernel-ml-devel-3.3.0-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
kernel-ml-headers-3.3.0-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.3.0-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

noarch
kernel-ml-doc-3.3.0-1.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm
kernel-ml-firmware-3.3.0-1.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm

src
kernel-ml-3.3.0-1.el6.elrepo.src.rpm

 Time just seems to fly by!

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/29/204
[2] http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2012-March/001135.html

One size fits all? compat-wireless fits many

The ELRepo Project received a request to package compat-wireless as "This is a must have for ELREPO!".

The kmod-compat-wireless has been built and was made available from the el6 testing repository. It includes a large number (106) of kernel modules as listed in note #1806 of the RFE. They are mostly drivers for wireless devices (surprise! :-) ) but some are for wired.

We are now looking for testers. You can check to see if your device is supported. Download this file containing device aliases:

http://elrepo.org/people/attic/aliases-wireless.txt

Find your vendorID:deviceID pairing by running:

lspci -nn | grep -i net

Suppose your ID pair is  14e4:4727, run this command:

grep -i 14e4 aliases-wireless.txt | grep -i 4727

If it returns a line like:

alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004727sv*sd*bc*sc*i*

then the kmod includes the driver.

The kmod-compat-wireless package can be found in http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el6/ .

x86_64 (64-bit): kmod-compat-wireless-3.3-0.2.rc6.1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

x86 (32-bit): kmod-compat-wireless-3.3-0.2.rc6.1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm

[Update on 2012-04-08]  The package has been updated to a newer version (  kmod-compat-wireless-3.3-2.n.el6.elrepo ) and is now available from the main repository.

[More update on 2012-08-28] If you are running RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux 6.3, please try installing the latest version in the elrepo-testing repo:

x86_64 (64-bit): kmod-compat-wireless-3.5.1-1.sn.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

x86 (32-bit): kmod-compat-wireless-3.5.1-1.sn.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm 

ELRepo growth (updated)

The number of monthly yum access to elrepo.org

While the number of EL5 users remains steady, access to EL6 continues to increase.