RealTek 8191SEvB wifi

[John W. Linville]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:53:23PM +0100, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 09:35:12AM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 
> > Looks like it, based on the addition of the rtl8192ce driver upstream
> > in 2.6.38, which includes support for multiple 8191 devices as well.
> > 
> > Knowing your PCI device ID would lead to more certainty. Devices the
> > driver claims to support:
> 
> Unfortunately I don't have the HW yet (I'll try to investigate *before*
> buying), but I'm looking at some Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 15 models, of
> which at least some seem to have this chip.  I found this HW profile
> of the specific model I'm looking at:
> 
> http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/client/show/pub_8de0cb7b-6fb2-4d20-992c-28ce749ed061
> 
> 0301-GSG is the exact model number I'm looking at, but I'm not sure
> if the model number listed here can be trusted.

Actually, there is some confusion here...the pci id references
Jarod foudn are in the rtlwifi infrastructure, but there are not yet
corresponding drivers for all those IDs.

If I correctly interpret the data from smolt (which reports pci ids
in decimal?  really?), it looks like the pci id for the device in
question is 10EC:8172.  Unfortunately, none of the current rtlwifi
sub-drivers claim that ID.

So 2.6.38 will not support that device and 2.6.39 probably won't
either. :-(

John
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