Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3434 mails)

["John E. Perry" <j.e.perry@xxxxxxx>]

Stefan Behlert wrote:
> > ...Well, I just looked at the Intel site again, and now they say iwlwifi
> > 1.0.0 has been "production" since 8/13/2007.  So why isn't it in suse
> > now?  Or doesn't "production" mean "stable"?
>
> Let me just say that Intel regards .0 releases as supported and for
> production use, and even if you have a critical bug fix it would take a
> real serious situation (from Intels point of view) to bring out a new .0
> version. SUSE is actively working together with Intel to find problems,
> determine if it's in the driver or the stack, and to fix them. 
> You can get the driver from the build service never-the-less.

Is this a general comment, Stefan, or is there some specific problem
hidden within iwlwifi?  I've seen no hint of trouble since I deleted
ipw3945, but I certainly don't want to go on a trip if there's a
possibility of finding myself without a connection!

John Perry


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