On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Richard <rz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:29:44PM +0000, mike cloaked wrote: >> I was recently testing an f14 install on an old laptop without wifi >> hardware - so I bought a small usb wifi adapter (MicroNext MN-WD550M >> Wireless USB 2.0 Adaptor) and this is recognised when plugged in: >> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8171 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188SU >> 802.11n WLAN Adapter >> >> However it was clear that there was no driver support for this device >> in the kernel. > > See drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8192U_core.c, did you try that? I notice that in rpmfusion free there is a kmod-staging package which seems to have r8192s_usb.ko and r8192u_usb.ko in it - I guess that this may work, but there is presumably still a need to include the firmware file in /lib/firmware which is proprietary but at least this would allow a yum update when the kernel updates and (maybe with a small delay) get the new driver from the new associated kmod? I suppose the mainstream Fedora kernel won't include the staging drivers since they would be possibly unstable? Mike -- mike c -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
