On 24/10/10 20:13, Ron Leach wrote: > 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). Oops forgot to mention that bit, sorry! > 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. Glad I was able to help!
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