F14 RC3: WiFi problem on Samsung netbooks

Ron Leach ronleach at tesco.net
Wed Oct 6 09:35:30 UTC 2010


Nathan Thomas wrote:

> I also have a Samsung netbook with the same wireless card (RTL8192E). 
> The bad news is that there isn't an in-kernel driver for it yet, but the 
> good news is that Realtek have released an open-source driver out into 
> the wild that works well with my F13 install. 
> <snip>
> I had one or two issues getting the kernel module to load on boot in my 
> x86_64 installation, if this happens to you please feel free to email me 
> and I'll let you know what I did to fix it.

Nathan, that's very helpful, thanks; explains why F13 wasn't working, 
either.

I'll track down a driver and see how far I get,

regards, Ron


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