which wifi adapter does centos 7.4 support? Could Centos give a list of those supported wifi adapters? Thanks! Regards Andrew At 2019-05-15 00:16:59, "Phil Perry" <pperry at elrepo.org> wrote: >On 14/05/2019 13:09, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 10:13:35AM +0800, qw wrote: >>> I use the wifi adaptor, Edimax AC1200, and its driver can be >>> downloaded from >>> >>> 'http://www.edimax.com.tw/edimax/download/download/data/edimax/tw/download/for_home/wireless_adapters/wireless_adapters_ac1200_dual-band/ew-7822ulc'. >>> >>> >>> I fail to compile its GPL Source Code on CentOS 7.4. >>> >>> >>> Where to get its rpm drivers, or how to compile its GPL Source Code? >> >> Looks like you've found the only official source code. >> >> It looks like someone else has (unofficial) code here: >> >> https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux >> >> It isn't a driver supported by the CentOS kernel, nor any 3rd-party >> repositories that I know of. You'll either have to get it to work >> yourself or use a newer kernel (which isn't something supported on >> CentOS, but provided by 3rd party repos such as elrepo.org.) >> > >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. > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos