Jim Perrin wrote:
That is a 4.3 kernel. Joshua said that as of *4.4* the updated bits will be included in the kernel. 4.4 is a week or two off, I believe.
because it's related to a security update. the -42.0.2 kernel does indeed "Just Work" with the 9550 cards, so you should be able to
I decided to give it a go on my 9500S-12 machine. I was running -34.0.2 with the downloaded driver; my machine hung on reboot to -42.0.2, but a hard poweroff/poweron cycle fixed that nonsense; it had hung booting the initial initrd load on the new kernel. (just some FYI for remote rebooters).
Drivers: 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp: v2.26.02.001 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp: v2.26.04.010
I was previously running v2.26.04.009 tarball, so a small upgrade came with the kernel. I just looked at 3ware.com, and this new driver version isn't downloadable yet. Hmmm.
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