[elrepo] Announcement: EL6 kmod-rtl8187se Testing Release [Version 2.5.49]

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

On 01/05/2012 03:25 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic<office at plnet.rs>  wrote:
>> On 01/05/2012 03:24 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote:
>>> Announcing the release of kmod-rtl8187se packages into the EL6
>>> elrepo-testing repository:
>>>
>>> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-rtl8187se
>>>
>>> This package provides the EL6 driver module for wireless devices based
>>> on the Realtek RTL8187SE Single-Chip Wireless LAN network interface
>>> controller and is kABI compatible with all kernels from 6.0
>>> (kernel-2.6.32-71.el6) upwards.
>
>> One CentOS user asked on the mailing list about rtl8185 package. He
>> manually installed it, module is used but no interface devices are created.
>>
>> I am not sure how much usage this package would get, chipset is rather
>> old, but it might be good to have it.
<snip>
>
> We tried to help him but eventually Phil pulled the code from the
> kernel and built it for him. As you can see in post #10 of that
> thread, the OP confirmed it worked. So, we decided to make it
> available from ELRepo. :)

Sorry for the confusion. I did not want to say it will help the user in 
question, I just used an opportunity to say that (while RTL kmod build 
process is fresh) maybe compiling rtl8185 package as well would be good 
thing to do. Since I never build kmod package from source....

My greater intention is to create/respin CentOS Desktop LiveDVD with all 
the NIC/wireless driver support I can muster. So having as much wireless 
drivers as possible would better benefit popularization of CentOS as a 
base for Desktop distro as well.

Once again, sorry for the confusion.


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