[CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

Tue May 26 11:06:50 UTC 2009
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

At Tue, 26 May 2009 12:05:15 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

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> >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
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> >> 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.
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> So Intel seems to be the way to go if you want to make wifi relatively
> painless to install and get working on linux?

YES!!! The only modern card with a fully open-source driver.

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