I've just installed centos 6.3 for the first time on a test machine and couldn't be happier - except that a critical wireless adapter driver is missing - the r8712u. I would love to convert my mythtv machine from Fedora 17 to centos 6.3 to put all that chaos and instability behind me.
My mythtv machine connects only wirelessly to the rest of my network and uses a Rosewill RNX-N180UBE USB adapter. This adapter has a larger than normal antenna with 5db of gain and supports 802.11n protocol. This provides greater bandwidth and a more reliable connection than any previously tested wireless adapter.
However, it requires the r8712u driver that is absent from centos 6.3 and all the repos that I've examined. The elrepo repo has a number of packages that are close, but unfortunately not the r8712u.
This driver is available for Fedora 17 in the kmod-staging package. Is there any chance to adapt this package for centos 6.3? Or at least the r8712u driver portion thereof?
Any suggestions to solve this dilemma?
Hi David,
You could try elreo testing repo at http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el6/x86_64/RPMS/ and try the kmod-compat-wireless-3.5.4-1.sn.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm.
I have had good luck with this package for a number of wireless devices but have not tried it with your particular device.
Phil
On 10/21/2012 05:11 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote:
I've just installed centos 6.3 for the first time on a test machine and couldn't be happier - except that a critical wireless adapter driver is missing - the r8712u. I would love to convert my mythtv machine from Fedora 17 to centos 6.3 to put all that chaos and instability behind me.
My mythtv machine connects only wirelessly to the rest of my network and uses a Rosewill RNX-N180UBE USB adapter. This adapter has a larger than normal antenna with 5db of gain and supports 802.11n protocol. This provides greater bandwidth and a more reliable connection than any previously tested wireless adapter.
However, it requires the r8712u driver that is absent from centos 6.3 and all the repos that I've examined. The elrepo repo has a number of packages that are close, but unfortunately not the r8712u.
This driver is available for Fedora 17 in the kmod-staging package. Is there any chance to adapt this package for centos 6.3? Or at least the r8712u driver portion thereof?
Any suggestions to solve this dilemma?
Thanks Phil, for your quick and potentially helpful suggestion. Unfortunately, the kmod-compat-wireless-3.5.4-1.sn.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm does not hand to me on a silver platter the r8712u driver module that I'd hoped for. The README file therein leads to tempting suggestions on how to compile this module, particularly for the Raspberry Pi, but I'm afraid that's way beyond my skill level, and I need to rely on the yum install method.
If anyone else can offer suggestions on how the staging modules can be brought to centos 6.3, I'd surely like to hear them.
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 06:19:48PM -0400, Phil Savoie wrote:
Hi David,
You could try elreo testing repo at http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el6/x86_64/RPMS/ and try the kmod-compat-wireless-3.5.4-1.sn.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm.
I have had good luck with this package for a number of wireless devices but have not tried it with your particular device.
Phil
On 10/21/2012 05:11 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote:
I've just installed centos 6.3 for the first time on a test machine and couldn't be happier - except that a critical wireless adapter driver is missing - the r8712u. I would love to convert my mythtv machine from Fedora 17 to centos 6.3 to put all that chaos and instability behind me.
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David A. De Graaf -
Phil Savoie