söndagen den 8 april 2012 11.16.04 skrev Larry Finger: > On 04/08/2012 06:16 AM, Jan Simonson wrote: > > I'm using a Samsung R720 laptop with a RTL8192e-pci NIC and Fedora 16. The > > driver has been in kmod-staging from fusion until recently. Now it is > > removed from staging and instead a driver is included in the kernel pack > > from Fedora. After booting with this new kernel the relevant modules are > > loaded (see below) but the wireless connection is not available. Using > > the module earlier from Fusion worked most of the time and better and > > better over time. > To fix your problem, you need to run a kernel that contains r8192e_pci in > its configuration. Driver rtl8192se cannot work with this device under any > circumstances. > > I just downloaded a copy of the Fedora 16 Live CD and booted it in a virtual > machine. The kernel there is 3.1.0-7.fc16.i686. It the configuration file, > CONFIG_RTL8192E is not set, thus your device would not work with this > kernel. > > @John: Was there a policy change at Fedora regarding staging drivers? Is > there some kernel that has them enabled? In fact the module I used earier was included in rpm kmod-staging from the fusion repositary and thus strictly speaking not a part of Fedora. For some reason the r8192e-pci module was dropped from kmod-staging and I believed that the modules in Fedora would function. Now I know better! I managed to compile and install r8192e-pci into /lib/modules/3.3.1-3.fc16.x86_64/kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/ (I'm running 3.3.1-3.fc16.x86_64 now) and also rtllib.ko, rtllib_crypt_ccmp.ko, rtllib_crypt_tkip.ko and rtllib_crypt_wep.ko into /lib/modules/3.3.1-3.fc16.x86_64/kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/ However trying to insmod any of them only results in insmod: error inserting 'xxx': -1 Unknown symbol in module They probably depend on each other so I have tested with everyone first, but to no avail. They must depend on some other module. I also tested with modprobe, but that didn't function either as they are not listed in modules.dep. Any pointer to how to make a correct entry in modules.dep or what they are depending on would be much appreciated. Best regards Jan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
