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

Sat Oct 22 19:30:41 CEST 2011

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.
+
+--
+Thomas
+
+