Realtek RTL8192E drivers for F13?

[Dave Stevens]

On Thursday, August 05, 2010 02:44:02 am Ed Greshko wrote:
>  On 08/05/2010 04:47 PM, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 18:57 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:26:24 am Gilboa Davara wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 20:13 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> 
> >>>> I'm booting a usb drive of F13 live on my Samsung N220 to test a
> >>>> permanent installation. It seems like to only showstopper is wireless
> >>>> with no apparent support for this chip. Is there actually support
> >>>> available with updates? At the moment I have no wired access although
> >>>> I can arrange this. If I can install and update to a working driver
> >>>> that'd work. Or is there support in some non-Red Hat repo?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Dave
> >>> 
> >>> 8192E or 8192SE?
> >> 
> >> RTL8192E
> >> 
> >> Dave
> > 
> > By looking at the RTL website, it seems that 8192E had no Linux support.
> > As such, the only alternative is ndiswrapper + XP drivers.
> 
> You can email to wlanfae at realtek.com and ask for the Linux drivers.
> They will send you the source code with the instructions on how to
> install.  They will also help you if you run into problems.
> 
> Ed

I've done that and will report back. Thanks very much, Ed.

Dave