[Mageia-dev] Missing firmware ( was: HEADSUP: glibc-2.14.1 landing...)

Dick Gevers dvgevers at xs4all.nl
Sat Oct 22 19:15:11 CEST 2011


On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:22:49 +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote about Re:
[Mageia-dev] HEADSUP: glibc-2.14.1 landing...:

>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...

It is a Realtek Semiconductor device 8176

lspcidrake -v |grep rtl

rtl8192ce: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|Device 8176 [NETWORK_OTHER]
(vendor:10ec device:8176 subv:10ec subd:9196) (rev: 01)

lsmod shows it's there, but configuring it is a headache till now, so I
tried to build drivers anew I found at Realtek for Linux....

Appreciate any ideas !

Ciao,
=Dick Gevers=



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