I installed Fedora 10 today and was somewhat dismayed to find out that my wireless card was not supported. After some googling I realized that in order to native support for my Atheros wireless card I needed to upgrade from 2.6.27.5 (which is installed) to 2.6.27.8. How do I do this? Is it possible? I tried the "yum update kernel" business but that was no use. Help is much appreciated!

Hi, you might have to search some other repo for the dev of the kernels.

As, afaik, rc8 is not a release version. But you should be able to find it with Fedora manuals or web page.

Google is your friend.

With Mandriva, it's called "cooker".

rc* is generally "pre-release"

Cheers, Glenn

rc is generally release candidate.

yum --enable updates-testing update kernel

Should get you there. You may have to look at man yum (for proper syntax) and look in your /etc/yum.repos.d directory to get the current name of the testing repo. This will give you the latest testing kernel available. You may have to look at the development repo(I never can remember which bleeds more).

What card?

oops! double post. G

Sorry -testing, Release CANDIDATE.

I knew the devel. tree had a name and would not be update.

Cheers, Glenn

My wireless adapter is an Atheros AR928x.

I was unable to figure it out, as I am inept (and relatively initiated in the ways of *nix). This a bump.

That Linux kernel is no longer a development version release candidate. Try to use the admin tools to install new software and then search for the kernel upgrade. If you get stuck, you can also rebuild the kernel by building it from the sources that you download from www.kernel.org. You can download it from the pub directory and select the version of the linux kernel that you want. Then unpack it using tar and build it following the README in the main directory.

Example, if you download linux-2.6.27.8.tar.bz2 into your /home/zerimas directory, then you would unpack it:

/home/zerimas:> tar -xjvf linux-2.6.27.8.tar.bz2
/home/zerimas:> cd linux-2.6.27.8
/home/zerimas/linux-2.6.27.8:> more README

The directions to build it are in the README. You should use the make oldconfig option and add the driver for atheros wireless.

If you wait long enough, the kernel devs will catch up to you.,

I have experienced this with both my 3G modem and usb sound box.

From my experience I had to patch the Kernel only once, and the next time I felt I needed to upgrade the kernel, it was already implemented.