[CentOS] Kernel 3.10 and CentOS 5
Stephen Harris
lists at spuddy.org
Wed Jul 31 12:38:13 UTC 2013
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:25:43PM +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> HAve you checked ElRepo third-party reposiroty?
> kmod packaged drivers for stock kernels. Just go to
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs and check for vendor:device ID pairing
> that lspci command will show for your rtl8192cu device.
"lsusb" in my case, but yeah. Interesting. Thanks. The driver
there ( kmod-r8192cu-3.4.4_4749-1.el5.elrepo ) appears to detect the
device and join the network. We'll have to see how stable it is :-)
Thanks!
> Btw, RHEL/CentOS kernel is much more advanced then vanilla kernel of the
> same numbering because Red Hat backports latest drivers to their kernel.
USB wifi drivers tend to lag in the RH kernel. The first thing I do is see
if there's a driver of the right name before hunting elsewhere :-)
--
rgds
Stephen
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