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

[Thomas Backlund]

22.10.2011 20:22, Dick Gevers skrev:
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:15:11 +0000, Dick Gevers wrote about [Mageia-dev]
> Missing firmware ( was: HEADSUP: glibc-2.14.1 landing...):
>
>> 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....
>
> Perhaps I need the dkms-r8192se package... Trying now!
>

Nope.
That package will be obsoleted by core kernel when all kernels are at 
3.1 series as the driver is added upstream.

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Thomas