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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] Missing firmware ( was: HEADSUP: glibc-2.14.1 landing...)</H1>
+ <B>Thomas Backlund</B>
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+ <I>Sat Oct 22 19:30:41 CEST 2011</I>
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+<PRE>22.10.2011 20:22, Dick Gevers skrev:
+&gt;<i> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:15:11 +0000, Dick Gevers wrote about [Mageia-dev]
+</I>&gt;<i> Missing firmware ( was: HEADSUP: glibc-2.14.1 landing...):
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:22:49 +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote about Re:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> [Mageia-dev] HEADSUP: glibc-2.14.1 landing...:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> 22.10.2011 19:12, Dick Gevers skrev:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:31:52 +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote about Re:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> [Mageia-dev] HEADSUP: glibc-2.14.1 landing...:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Well, I consider glibc to be a critical base component, so I decided to
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> stick with a stable 2.14.1 release atleast for now.
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> I dunno if this might be related to the new version, but I just bought a
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> new laptop and installed Cauldron (now upto date), but I cannot compile
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> the Realtek driver I downloaded for the wifi device:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> When running 'make' I get all kinds of warnings like:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> base.c...warning .. expects type .. long unsigned, but argument 5 has
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> type ...int... Error 2
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Maybe it is completely unrelated, if so sorry for the noise.
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> It's more likely you have sources that dont support kernel-3.1 series.
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> What hw is this?
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Are you sure the kernel cant support it directly ?
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> lspcidrake -v output would/could help...
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> It is a Realtek Semiconductor device 8176
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> lspcidrake -v |grep rtl
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> rtl8192ce: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|Device 8176 [NETWORK_OTHER]
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> (vendor:10ec device:8176 subv:10ec subd:9196) (rev: 01)
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> lsmod shows it's there, but configuring it is a headache till now, so I
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> tried to build drivers anew I found at Realtek for Linux....
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Perhaps I need the dkms-r8192se package... Trying now!
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>
+Nope.
+That package will be obsoleted by core kernel when all kernels are at
+3.1 series as the driver is added upstream.
+
+--
+Thomas
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