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

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs> wrote:
> On 01/05/2012 03:25 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:

>> 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.

Don't be sorry, be happy. :-)

Looks like Alan is planning to build more realtek drivers when he has
the time ...

Akemi