I was recently testing an f14 install on an old laptop without wifi hardware - so I bought a small usb wifi adapter (MicroNext MN-WD550M Wireless USB 2.0 Adaptor) and this is recognised when plugged in: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8171 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter
However it was clear that there was no driver support for this device in the kernel.
There is a Realtek driver available at: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=48&...
I downloaded the linux driver version 2.6.6.0 from 2010/12/17 and untarred the files - and then used the standard make/make install to build. This works nicely.
The question I have is whether there is likely to be any upstream FOSS support for this very neat little wireless adapter so that it becomes plug and play in the future? Is this being developed or is it all proprietary?
Thanks
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:29:44PM +0000, mike cloaked wrote:
I was recently testing an f14 install on an old laptop without wifi hardware - so I bought a small usb wifi adapter (MicroNext MN-WD550M Wireless USB 2.0 Adaptor) and this is recognised when plugged in: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8171 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter
However it was clear that there was no driver support for this device in the kernel.
See drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8192U_core.c, did you try that?
Richard
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Richard rz@linux-m68k.org wrote:
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:29:44PM +0000, mike cloaked wrote:
I was recently testing an f14 install on an old laptop without wifi hardware - so I bought a small usb wifi adapter (MicroNext MN-WD550M Wireless USB 2.0 Adaptor) and this is recognised when plugged in: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8171 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter
However it was clear that there was no driver support for this device in the kernel.
See drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8192U_core.c, did you try that?
Richard
Thanks - I was not aware of this - will try when I get some time over the next few days....
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Richard rz@linux-m68k.org wrote:
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:29:44PM +0000, mike cloaked wrote:
I was recently testing an f14 install on an old laptop without wifi hardware - so I bought a small usb wifi adapter (MicroNext MN-WD550M Wireless USB 2.0 Adaptor) and this is recognised when plugged in: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8171 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter
However it was clear that there was no driver support for this device in the kernel.
See drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8192U_core.c, did you try that?
I notice that in rpmfusion free there is a kmod-staging package which seems to have r8192s_usb.ko and r8192u_usb.ko in it - I guess that this may work, but there is presumably still a need to include the firmware file in /lib/firmware which is proprietary but at least this would allow a yum update when the kernel updates and (maybe with a small delay) get the new driver from the new associated kmod?
I suppose the mainstream Fedora kernel won't include the staging drivers since they would be possibly unstable?
Mike
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:15 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloaked@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Richard rz@linux-m68k.org wrote:
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:29:44PM +0000, mike cloaked wrote:
I was recently testing an f14 install on an old laptop without wifi hardware - so I bought a small usb wifi adapter (MicroNext MN-WD550M Wireless USB 2.0 Adaptor) and this is recognised when plugged in: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8171 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter
However it was clear that there was no driver support for this device in the kernel.
See drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8192U_core.c, did you try that?
I notice that in rpmfusion free there is a kmod-staging package which seems to have r8192s_usb.ko and r8192u_usb.ko in it - I guess that this may work, but there is presumably still a need to include the firmware file in /lib/firmware which is proprietary but at least this would allow a yum update when the kernel updates and (maybe with a small delay) get the new driver from the new associated kmod?
I suppose the mainstream Fedora kernel won't include the staging drivers since they would be possibly unstable?
Just a delayed update on this issue.
I did install the kmod-staging-PAE package from rpmfusion, and also pulled the RTL8192SU firmware directory from the Realtek web site (was in a zipped file with drivers and other files)
Once that was done the dongle worked just fine.
I wonder how long it will be before the RTL8192SU driver will be regarded as stable enough to go into mainstream? This works without any problems at all for me. Or is that a question to ask in the kernel list?
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 08:58:36PM +0000, mike cloaked wrote:
I wonder how long it will be before the RTL8192SU driver will be regarded as stable enough to go into mainstream? This works without any problems at all for me. Or is that a question to ask in the kernel list?
My guess is never, given the low amount of work on the staging wifi drivers in general and the utter steaming piles of poo that they are. But I've been wrong before.
--Kyle
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Kyle McMartin kyle@mcmartin.ca wrote:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 08:58:36PM +0000, mike cloaked wrote:
I wonder how long it will be before the RTL8192SU driver will be regarded as stable enough to go into mainstream? This works without any problems at all for me. Or is that a question to ask in the kernel list?
My guess is never, given the low amount of work on the staging wifi drivers in general and the utter steaming piles of poo that they are. But I've been wrong before.
Thanks Kyle - well I guess at least they are in the staging driver area and can be used in the interim - even if the interim may be a loong time!
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