[elrepo] RTL 8188CUS 802.11n driver

[Alan Bartlett]

On 18 April 2011 23:08, Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org> wrote:
> On 18 April 2011 05:52, Daniel Russ <danruss00 at netscape.net> wrote:

>>    I currently compile the driver for 8188CUS driver (8192cu.ko) for my CentOS 5.6 box.  Every time I update the kernel, the driver needs to be recompiled.  A friend at the CentOS forum suggested that an ELRepo driver may be a better solution.  Any chance of getting an ELRepo package.

> What I will find helpful is if you would please open an RFE for that
> package in the ELRepo bug tracker [1]. That way we have everything
> logged in a central location. If I recall correctly we currently have
> r8192ce and r8192se packages available, so the provision of another
> variant should not (in theory) prove to be a problem.

> [1] http://elrepo.org/bugs/main_page.php

Hi Dan,

There are now kmod-r8192cu packages available for EL5 in the
elrepo-testing repository, which are currently syncing to the mirror
sites.

When time permits please install, test and report back your findings.

Assuming that you have configured your system to access the ELRepo
Project's repositories (details on the home page [2]), you can install
the package by --

yum --disablerepo \* --enablerepo elrepo-testing install kmod-r8192cu

Please note that although the packages have the general kmod-r8192cu
name, the actual module within the packages is '8192cu.ko', as a
result of the way Realtek have written the Makefile. This means that
any reference to the module, in your /etc/modprobe.conf file, should
not have an 'r' prefix.

Regards,
Alan.

[2] http://elrepo.org