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

[Phil Perry]

On 05/01/12 18:07, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>
> 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.
>

I don't know how you plan to implement that, but be advised that some of 
the Ralink wireless drivers (kmod-rtxxxxsta packages) conflict with each 
other at the file level so it's not possible to install more than one of 
them at the same time - they all provide the same .dat file (same by 
name, but differing by content) so rpm/yum will throw an error.

It was never envisaged that a user might have more than one Ralink 
wireless device present, hence nor that a user would want to install 
additional 3rd party drivers for non-existent hardware.

Of course you can have them all present in your package set, just don't 
expect an install everything option to work.

Another possibility for improved hardware support of a LiveCD respin 
might be to just include Alan's updated mainline kernel-ml package as 
the default kernel so you have the very latest hardware support right 
there in your kernel.

Hope that helps.