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

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=
+
+