kernel 2.6.22

[slacker]

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kern...angeLog-2.6.22

[The_ouroboros]

novità fondamentali?


Tnks

[Mezzelfo]

Le trovi su:
http://kernelnewbies.org/
Che in questo momento è abbastanza irraggiungibile...

[CARVASIN]

New Wireless stack

For too many years, Linux wireless support has worked, but not very well. 2.6.22 has a completely new, better wireless stack included. This new wireless stack has been donated by the known WiFi specialist company Devicescape (many thanks to Devicescape for their contribution and support to open source!). This wireless stack has many features, like a complete software MAC implementation, WEP, WPA, a "link-layer" bridging module, hostapd, QoS support to prioritize things like VoIP, 802.11g support, and full debug capabilities. All of this comes in a single implementation that drivers can use without rewriting those features themselves, which sadly has been done multiple times in the linux WiFi world.

Another feature of this stack is a completely new user interface. The old stacks have an ugly ioctl-based interface which were standarized under the name of "wireless extensions" (wext). The new interface uses a netlink-based interface, suited for the needs of desktop-based configuration interfaces, but retaining at the same time userspace compatibility with the old interface.

The disadvantage is the lack of drivers using this stack: the drivers that have been in the tree for a long time do not support this stack, and will need to be ported (which will hopefully not be that hard, since the new stack is actually a much better ground to build drivers upon that the current mess). There are quite a lot of new and ported drivers that are already using the new stack which have not been merged in this release, but will get merged in future releases, like the RT2x00 drivers, the bcm43xx driver, zd1211rw, adm8211, rtl818x, Intel iwlwifi (ipw3945 and ipw4965). Distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora already are using them.

In any case, this is the building block that will bring better wireless support to Linux.

Questo vuol dire che avremo supporto nativo a queste schede wi-fi? Senza nessun firmware/driver/quant'altro di natura proprietaria?
Grazie

Ciao!

[AnonimoVeneziano]

Originariamente inviato da CARVASIN

New Wireless stack

For too many years, Linux wireless support has worked, but not very well. 2.6.22 has a completely new, better wireless stack included. This new wireless stack has been donated by the known WiFi specialist company Devicescape (many thanks to Devicescape for their contribution and support to open source!). This wireless stack has many features, like a complete software MAC implementation, WEP, WPA, a "link-layer" bridging module, hostapd, QoS support to prioritize things like VoIP, 802.11g support, and full debug capabilities. All of this comes in a single implementation that drivers can use without rewriting those features themselves, which sadly has been done multiple times in the linux WiFi world.

Another feature of this stack is a completely new user interface. The old stacks have an ugly ioctl-based interface which were standarized under the name of "wireless extensions" (wext). The new interface uses a netlink-based interface, suited for the needs of desktop-based configuration interfaces, but retaining at the same time userspace compatibility with the old interface.

The disadvantage is the lack of drivers using this stack: the drivers that have been in the tree for a long time do not support this stack, and will need to be ported (which will hopefully not be that hard, since the new stack is actually a much better ground to build drivers upon that the current mess). There are quite a lot of new and ported drivers that are already using the new stack which have not been merged in this release, but will get merged in future releases, like the RT2x00 drivers, the bcm43xx driver, zd1211rw, adm8211, rtl818x, Intel iwlwifi (ipw3945 and ipw4965). Distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora already are using them.

In any case, this is the building block that will bring better wireless support to Linux.

Questo vuol dire che avremo supporto nativo a queste schede wi-fi? Senza nessun firmware/driver/quant'altro di natura proprietaria?
Grazie

Ciao!

No, è semplicemente una nuova interfaccia API per programmare i drivers Wireless + semplice e un diverso modo di gestire i drivers wireless a livello kernel. Il firmware serve sempre.

Comunque la novità + importante sembra essere il nuovo slab allocator

Ciao

[linuxianoxcaso]

qualcuno sa come siamo messi con il modulo sky2 ?
io ho dovuto disabilitare la scheda di rete integrata e prenderne una pci perchè mi mandava in stallo tutto il pc

[Sir Wallace]

ROTFL

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[Psycotic]

x chi usa LVM ochhio che c''e un bug, infatti nn si riesce a fare pvmove

Se serve qui c'e' la patch

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kern...x-status.patch

[The_ouroboros]

come vi trovate con questo kernel?

[Sir Wallace]

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[CapodelMondo]

HO dovuto abbandonare ubuntu 7.04 perchè nonostante riconoscesse e facesse andare perfettamente la mia scheda wifi USB della linksys (wusb54g) quando attaccavo il mulo la suddetta scheda si piantava di brutto. possibilità che qualcosa sia cambiato???

[Sir Wallace]

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[Sir Wallace]

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