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 -- 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
