On 2019-01-22 11:01, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 7:54 AM Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> >> I am having trouble using the realtek wifi chip in my new tp-link >> usb wifi dongle. Upon plugging it, the device gets registered by the >> kernel (in /var/log/messages), but that's about it, no network device >> is being created (iwconfig does not see it, nothing else works). >> >> A few google searches later I found out that this realtek chip is not >> supported by the kernel and requires a driver, and that the driver is >> packaged for C7 as kmod-8188eu in elrepo. >> >> However, yum install kmod-8188eu refuses to install it (full yum >> output is here: https://pastebin.com/raw/vvak6FCU ), complaining that >> the following dependencies cannot be met: >> >> --> Processing Dependency: kernel(wireless_send_event) = 0xa02e7e03 >> for >> package: kmod-8188eu-4.1.4_6773.20130222-4.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 >> --> Processing Dependency: kernel(usb_submit_urb) = 0x74c6ac58 for >> package: kmod-8188eu-4.1.4_6773.20130222-4.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 >> --> Processing Dependency: kernel(usb_reset_device) = 0xddd0084e for >> package: kmod-8188eu-4.1.4_6773.20130222-4.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 >> --> Processing Dependency: kernel(usb_put_dev) = 0xf709107c for >> package: kmod-8188eu-4.1.4_6773.20130222-4.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 >> --> Processing Dependency: kernel(usb_kill_urb) = 0xa55bf715 for >> package: kmod-8188eu-4.1.4_6773.20130222-4.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 >> --> Processing Dependency: kernel(usb_get_dev) = 0x372a41af for >> package: kmod-8188eu-4.1.4_6773.20130222-4.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 >> --> Processing Dependency: kernel(usb_free_urb) = 0x739aecf4 for >> package: kmod-8188eu-4.1.4_6773.20130222-4.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 >> --> Processing Dependency: kernel(usb_control_msg) = 0xd04e3a9e for >> package: kmod-8188eu-4.1.4_6773.20130222-4.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 >> --> Processing Dependency: kernel(usb_alloc_urb) = 0x12a4948e for >> package: kmod-8188eu-4.1.4_6773.20130222-4.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 >> >> I've never seen such output from yum before --- I'm guessing it is >> asking for a kernel with specific "properties", and failing to find >> one. >> >> What is the best way to resolve this? Is there some kernel package >> somewhere that matches these properties, or is there some other >> package >> that provides these features to an existing kernel, or something else? > > That output indicates that that kmod package is built for the EL 7.5 > kernel and is not compatible with the current kernel. I suggest you > file a request to have the kmod-8188eu rebuilt for EL 7.6 at > http://elrepo.org/bugs/ . > > Akeme Another alternative may be to pull down the SRPM and run it through rpmbuild to locally create a binary package compatible with the system as it's currently installed/running. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1