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!
