[CentOS] where to find wifi driver
Jonathan Billings
billings at negate.orgTue May 14 16:20:42 UTC 2019
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On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 05:16:59PM +0100, Phil Perry wrote: > I'm generally not willing to package these Realtek sources for Enterprise > Linux as the code is often heavily dependant upon kernel versioning with > lots of conditionals. This approach simply does not work on RHEL (or > CentOS), where for example el7 uses a nominal 3.10.0 kernel but has a wifi > stack that is backported from linux-4.14. For these Realtek drivers to be > properly supported on RHEL (and CentOS), Realtek need to perform RHEL > versioning checks (RHEL_MAJOR and RHEL_MINOR) in addition to their kernel > versioning checks. > > My advice - if Realtek isn't prepared to support the device on RHEL (or > CentOS), purchase an adapter that is natively supported. Yeah, sorry, I wasn't volunteering you to support this, but rather suggesting to the original poster that they might have better luck building it against an elrepo kernel than a CentOS kernel. I appreciate all the time and effort ELrepo puts into providing packages. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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