[elrepo] problem with wifi card Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185

[Akemi Yagi]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
<Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote:
> Akemi Yagi wrote:
>> 2012/1/8 ml<ml at smtp.fakessh.eu>:
>>
>>> I get the same answer definitely not
>>>
>>> [quote]
>>> [root at localhost ~]# uname -a
>>> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Thu Dec 22
>>> 18:50:52 GMT 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>> [root at localhost ~]# grep -i 10ec /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep 8185
>>> [root at localhost ~]#
>>> [/quote]
>>
>> That is very strange. Can you try this command:
>>
>> ls -l `find /lib/modules -name rtl8180.ko`
>>
>> And this:
>>
>> ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/*.ko
>
> note that he's on i686, not x86_64. I don't have a C6 32-bit machine to
> check, but maybe the 32-bit kernel rpm is missing the driver?

It's there on the 32-bit system. Just type:

ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.i686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/*.ko

-rwxr--r--. 1 root root 42476 Dec 13 17:45 rtl8180.ko
-rwxr--r--. 1 root root 72788 Dec 13 17:45 rtl8187.ko

Akemi