[CentOS] probleme with my wifi card on centos 6

fakessh fakessh at fakessh.eu
Tue Jan 3 02:35:29 UTC 2012


Le 2012-01-03 02:44, Ljubomir Ljubojevic a écrit :
> On 01/03/2012 02:33 AM, fakessh wrote:
>> Le 2012-01-03 02:21, Ljubomir Ljubojevic a écrit :
>>> On 01/03/2012 02:15 AM, fakessh @ wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Le mardi 03 janvier 2012 à 02:02 +0100, fakessh a écrit :
>>>>> Le 2012-01-03 00:15, Ljubomir Ljubojevic a écrit :
>>>>>> On 01/02/2012 09:58 PM, fakessh wrote:
>>>>>>> I am writing to report a problem I encounter with my wireless
>>>>>>> card
>>>>>>> realtek 8150
>>>>>>> the installer does not detect the device so the
>>>>>>> /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-wlan0 is absent
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Realtek 8150 is USB LAN NIC, not the wireless one. Drivers for 
>>>>>> it
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> already inside the Kernel:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://www.realtek.com/products/productsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=8&Level=5&Conn=4&ProdID=21
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please post output of the 'lspci -v" command, mainly those 
>>>>>> device
>>>>>> without anything in "Kernel driver in use:" (or do not have that
>>>>>> line
>>>>>> at
>>>>>> all).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> this my output
>>>>> root at localhost ~]# lspci -v | egrep Ethernet
>>>>> 00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
>>>>> 01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>>>>> RTL-8185
>>>>> IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)
>>>
>>> So it is not RTL-8150, but RTL-8185
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I connect with the ethernet port but I can not turn on the 
>>>>> wireless
>>>>> card
>>>>>
>>>>> all testimonials are welcome
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> the card appears sold as a wireless trendnet TEW 423PI
>>>
>>> The chip is all we should need.
>>>
>>> Next we is DeviceID so we can match it. run:
>>>
>>> lspci -n | grep '01:06.0'
>>
>> output of this command
>> root at localhost ~]# lspci -n | grep '01:06.0'
>> 01:06.0 0200: 10ec:8185 (rev 20)
>>
>>
>
> I feared so. ElRepo does not have it, nor any other repository.
>
> But there is Realtek's source you can compile:
> 
> http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=1&PFid=1&Level=6&Conn=5&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true#RTL8185L
>
> Also look at http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/
>
> You can also ask ElRepo developers that they build an kmod-package 
> from
> that source.


I was not able to set up the wireless interface despite the driver. 
I'll open an issue on the bugtracker of elrepo


-- 
  http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x092164A7
  gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 092164A7

  http://urlshort.eu fakessh @
  http://gplus.to/sshfake
  http://gplus.to/sshswilting
  http://gplus.to/john.swilting



More information about the CentOS mailing list