[CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

Tue May 26 10:05:15 UTC 2009
Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>

>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf
>Of Robert Heller
>Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 4:42 PM
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Cc: 'CentOS mailing list'
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
>
>> The firmware you mention, is that used with dkms or something like that?
>
>I'm not sure what the firmware does exactly.  Look in your
>/var/log/messages file.  There will be some mention of 'failed to load
>firmware' associated with the driver load.  You need to have a
>partitular file living in /lib/firmware/ -- the name is wired into the
>driver.  The SMC Ez Connect card needed something called isl3890.  I
>don't remember where I got this.  My Intel card needed ipw2100-1.3*,
>this I got off a site after googling for 'firmware ipw2100' (or
>something like that).  Getting the Intel was easy -- there is a web
>site with all of the info needed.  Getting the prism firware was a bit
>of a hassle.  You might have to unpack a file from the CD that came
>with the WiFi card -- this means you need some Windows tool to
>unpack/install it someplace and then copy the magic file from where the
>Windows installer/unpacker puts it to your Linux box and make sure it
>has the proper name.  It is important to get the correct version for
>your card.

So Intel seems to be the way to go if you want to make wifi relatively
painless to install and get working on linux?

-- 
/Sorin
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