Support for MicroNext MN-WD550M Wireless USB 2.0 Adaptor

[mike cloaked]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Richard <rz at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:29:44PM +0000, mike cloaked wrote:
>> I was recently testing an f14 install on an old laptop without wifi
>> hardware - so I bought a small usb wifi adapter (MicroNext MN-WD550M
>> Wireless USB 2.0 Adaptor) and this is recognised when plugged in:
>> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8171 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188SU
>> 802.11n WLAN Adapter
>>
>> However it was clear that there was no driver support for this device
>> in the kernel.
>
> See drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8192U_core.c, did you try that?

I notice that in rpmfusion free there is a kmod-staging package which
seems to have r8192s_usb.ko and r8192u_usb.ko in it - I guess that
this may work, but there is presumably still a need to include the
firmware file in /lib/firmware which is proprietary but at least this
would allow a yum update when the kernel updates and (maybe with a
small delay) get the new driver from the new associated kmod?

I suppose the mainstream Fedora kernel won't include the staging
drivers since they would be possibly unstable?

Mike
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