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

Sat Oct 22 19:22:31 CEST 2011

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!
+
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