On 10/21/2010 05:37 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Terry Polzin<foxec208@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Broke down and bought a cheap mini usb wireless N device. > Hi Terry, > > I have a similar device: > Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0bda:8172 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8191S > WLAN Adapter > > Which is a ginormous pain. AFAIK, there is a driver in kernel staging > (r8192s_usb), but it's not shipped with standard Fedora kernel. I > downloaded the driver from Realtek and compiled it, but loading the > module segfaulted (and hard-locked) my F13 machine - even magic keys > couldn't save it! > > This device "works" on Ubuntu 10.10 out of the box, because they ship > the unstable driver. It also loads the eeprom_93cx6 module, presumably > for loading firmware or something. > > I guess if you can build the staging drivers out of kernel, then you > might have some luck. > > -c Hi Chris, I just posted the how-to. Good luck to you too. Cheers, JD -- 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
