[elrepo] Announcement: New and Updated Intel Wireless WiFi Link Firmwares

Phil Perry phil at elrepo.org
Sun Feb 14 18:56:17 EST 2010


Announcing the release of updated iwl firmware packages to support the 
updated Intel Wireless WiFi Link drivers in RHEL5.5b1 
(kernel-2.6.18-186.el5):

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5.b1/html/Release_Notes/

The iwl3945-firmware has been updated to include the latest firmware 
required by the updated iwl3945 driver in kernel-2.6.18-186.el5

iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-1.elrepo.noarch.rpm

The iwlagn driver has been updated in kernel-2.6.18-186.el5 to support 
4965AGN, 5000AGN, 5300AGN, 5350AGN, 5150AGN, 1000BGN and 6000AGN series 
network adapters. An updated firmware package for iwl5000 and new 
firmware packages supporting 5150AGN, 1000BGN and 6000AGN series network 
adapters are now available.

iwl1000-firmware-128.50.3.1-1.elrepo.noarch.rpm
iwl5000-firmware-8.24.2.12-1.elrepo.noarch.rpm
iwl5150-firmware-8.24.2.2-1.elrepo.noarch.rpm
iwl6000-firmware-9.176.4.1-1.elrepo.noarch.rpm

Existing users of iwl3945 and iwl5000 firmwares are advised to update 
firmware packages before updating to an el5.5 series kernel.

Thank you.

The ELRepo Team.



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