Ned Slider wrote: > Adrian Sevcenco wrote: >> Hi! Have anyone any idea why w83793G driver is not in the upstream >> vendor kernel? do i have to compile my own kernel for this to work? >> >> Thank you, >> Adrian >> > > Hi Adrian, Hi, > I guess the w83793 driver had not made the 2.6.18.4 kernel that RHEL5 is > based off. > > Anyway, luckily you don't need to build a whole kernel for one driver > module - you can build the driver out of tree against the el5 kernel. > > Even better, I've backported the module for you from the latest upstream > kernel (2.6.30.5) as a kABI tracking kmod package and put it in the > elrepo-testing repository here (kmod-w83793): Thanks a lot!!!! > http://elrepo.org > http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/ > > As you have the hardware, I'd appreciate if you would test the driver > and report back how it works, either here or on the elrepo mailing lists > or bug tracker. Sure! I will let you know asap :) Thanks! Adrian -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3110 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090908/2868adcc/attachment-0005.bin>