On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:03:22 -0500 Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote: > 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. [snip] > >> 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: [snip] > > 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/ . > > 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. Thanks, that would certainly be a better solution than manually building the driver from source, since I could install the resulting .rpm on all of my machines. If the bug I just submitted to elrepo doesn't get resolved for whatever reason, I'll try that. Best, :-) Marko