Nathan Thomas wrote: > The bad news is that there isn't an in-kernel driver for it yet, but the > good news is that Realtek have released an open-source driver out into > the wild that works well with my F13 install. > > I had one or two issues getting the kernel module to load on boot in my > x86_64 installation, if this happens to you please feel free to email me > and I'll let you know what I did to fix it. >
Nathan, just to say I tracked down a driver and installed it. I didn't find any problems on booting. The README with the driver was pretty good, but I had to also load the kernel source, and the gcc compilers, before I could create the driver - I hit these errors because, on a fairly light XFCE clean install, neither of these were already there (and I hadn't realised that). On the laptop list I've posted details of what I did, to help others because I think this chipset is common, and there are a lot of newer folk trying these netbooks who may otherwise find installing a driver from source too daunting (it isn't really). Thanks for your help and for the advice that there was a driver available. regards, Ron _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
