Quoting JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>: > On 08/05/2010 01:47 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 18:57 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote: >>> On Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:26:24 am Gilboa Davara wrote: >>>> On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 20:13 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'm booting a usb drive of F13 live on my Samsung N220 to test a >>>>> permanent installation. It seems like to only showstopper is wireless >>>>> with no apparent support for this chip. Is there actually support >>>>> available with updates? At the moment I have no wired access although >>>>> I can arrange this. If I can install and update to a working driver >>>>> that'd work. Or is there support in some non-Red Hat repo? >>>>> >>>>> Dave >>>> 8192E or 8192SE? >>> RTL8192E >>> >>> Dave >> By looking at the RTL website, it seems that 8192E had no Linux support. >> As such, the only alternative is ndiswrapper + XP drivers. >> >> - Gilboa >> > I would first try and download a kernel source tarball from kernel.org, > and run make xconfig and select rtl8192e from among > drivers -> staging -> rtl8292e > > compile that kernel and install it and boot with and see if it will > bring up the interface before you go for the ultra kludgey and extremely > unreliable ndiswrapper. > I am running kernel linux-2.6.35-git1 on F13 from kernel.org and > in the source tree I see: > /tmp/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35-git1/drivers/staging/rtl8192e > > I do not have this interface so I do not build it. > > Good luck, > > JD thank you. If the driver is in staging does that imply its routine availability in F14? Dave > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Krishnamurti -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
