[Mageia-dev] HEADSUP: glibc-2.14.1 landing...

[Thomas Backlund]

22.10.2011 19:12, Dick Gevers skrev:
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:31:52 +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote about Re:
> [Mageia-dev] HEADSUP: glibc-2.14.1 landing...:
>
>> Well, I consider glibc to be a critical base component, so I decided to
>> stick with a stable 2.14.1 release atleast for now.
>
> I dunno if this might be related to the new version, but I just bought a
> new laptop and installed Cauldron (now upto date), but I cannot compile the
> Realtek driver I downloaded for the wifi device:
>
> When running 'make' I get all kinds of warnings like:
> base.c...warning .. expects type .. long unsigned, but argument 5 has
> type ...int... Error 2
>
> Maybe it is completely unrelated, if so sorry for the noise.
>

It's more likely you have sources that dont support kernel-3.1 series.

What hw is this?
Are you sure the kernel cant support it directly ?

lspcidrake -v output would/could help...

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Thomas