From: Jan Simonson <jan@simonson.se>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RTL8192e-pci NIC
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:32:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1458082.uKdUEMMXD6@ymer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120409192630.GB26994@tuxdriver.com>
måndagen den 9 april 2012 15.26.30 skrev du:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 10:57:03AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> > As I do not use Fedora, I was not aware of Fusion. Perhaps you could
> > get them to reinstate this driver in their package. In addition, you
> > might post a bug at Redhat in hopes that they will change their
> > standard configuration. As a last resort, you could switch to a
> > distro that includes this driver in their standard kernels.
Actually I managed to load the modules and wlan0 shows up. (I follwed your
advice to use the same Fedora kernel and run depmod). Unfortunately I'm still
unable to connect to any network with or without encryption.
> Yeah, this is reasonable advice. I don't know why Fusion droped this
> package, but it might have been due to me making their life harder by
> integrating compat-wireless directly into the Fedora kernels. Since I
> am no longer doing that, they may be willing to reverse that decision.
I filed this bug http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2265 with Fusion
in case they were not aware of the two versions.
> I don't really see including a staging driver in Fedora unless it is
> clearly on the path to the "normal" part of the kernel. Any chance
> of that?
The TODO-file in kernel-3.3.fc16/linux-3.3.x86_64/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/
reads:
* merge into drivers/net/wireless/rtllib/rtl8192e
* clean up function naming
But when is, of course, another question.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-09 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-08 11:16 RTL8192e-pci NIC Jan Simonson
2012-04-08 16:16 ` Larry Finger
2012-04-09 15:10 ` Jan Simonson
2012-04-09 15:57 ` Larry Finger
2012-04-09 19:26 ` John W. Linville
2012-04-09 20:32 ` Jan Simonson [this message]
2012-04-09 22:16 ` Larry Finger
2012-04-11 15:51 ` Jan Simonson
2012-04-11 16:02 ` Larry Finger
2012-04-13 15:11 ` Jan Simonson
2012-04-13 16:07 ` Larry Finger
2012-04-16 22:28 ` Larry Finger
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