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--- Comment #66 from Ben Kevan <ben.kevan@xxxxxxxxx>  2007-12-05 11:08:59 MST 
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(In reply to comment #63 from Dave Rosky)
> (In reply to comment #58 from Ben Kevan)
>
> > "Slowly" getting better? That's an awkward way to put it. I think in the 
> > last
> > few months they have made some great strides to improving it. 
>
> I agree completely with this.  I just installed Fedora 8 on the same laptop
> with SuSE 10.3 (I like to play around with distros), and Fedora now *only*
> ships iwl and it works absolutely great - it connects much faster, it stays
> connected even under heavy load, and it comes back from suspend and resume
> every time.  The LED is still dark, but that's pretty minor, and I'm glad
> they're working on functionality first anyway.
>
> This is a little disappointing because SuSE has always been pretty 
> bullet-proof
> in the past (from my experience), but this time on wireless they got trumped 
> by
> both Ubuntu and Fedora, and are slow to fix things as well.
>
> Dave

Yes although the old Alpha of FC8 had the bug also :) 

You also have to take into consideration that FC8 is shipped with
NetworkManager 0.7 although when I went to install FC8 on my laptop it wouldn't
install using the Wireless Drivers.. Had to do wired then get the wireless
working (similar to openSUSE) Ubuntu has now fixed this issue. Also, there has
been a fix for this. I uploaded the diff files, I've given tons of info, I
consider it a bug yet no visible movement has been made to get the patch
applied and pushed out. This kind of irks me since quite a few people have this
issue (3 in my office alone all with Intel 3945 Cards). 

If openSUSE 11.0 does go full iwl I hope they add the newest versions (right
now 1.2.22) and not some outdated version since Intel is really working on
getting iwl stabalized since they realize there are many bugs in ipw.

No more ranting.. I'll do my part and remove my ipw and built iwl drivers and
use the iwl drivers on the wireless buildservice although the driver listed is
1.2.0 and not 1.2.22

Helmut is it seriously the 1.2.0 driver or is it really the latest 1.2.22
driver? I think having an auto buildservice for the latest would be very
helpful in testing for release in 10.3 (as bug fix since it is known the
shipped iwl isn't the greatest) and testing later for 11.0


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