[CentOS] Centos 5.5 on a Toshiba Satellite L1500D - Wireless networking - Realtek 8172

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On 27/06/10 05:38, Frank Cox wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 19:28 -0700, Mark wrote:
>> You could try to
>> contact RealTek to see if they have a solution, or check for a
>> compatible driver online....
>
> Having spent most of the afternoon running google searches and reading
> resulting web pages, I get the impression that the Realtek 8172 is
> supported in the 2.6.32 kernel.  So maybe it'll work with RHEL/Centos 6
> when it comes around.
>

Doubtful as these drivers are still in the kernel staging area and 
haven't even made it into the latest (2.6.34) mainline kernel yet. 
You'll probably have to wait for them to make it into the mainline 
kernel before it's worth filing an RFE to get them backported into RHEL6.