Realtek RTL8192E drivers for F13?

[JD]

  On 08/05/2010 01:47 AM, 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.
>
> - Gilboa
>
I would first try and download a kernel source tarball from kernel.org,
and run make xconfig and select rtl8192e from among
drivers -> staging -> rtl8292e

compile that kernel and install it and boot with and see if it will
bring up the interface before you go for the ultra kludgey and extremely
unreliable ndiswrapper.
I am running kernel linux-2.6.35-git1 on F13 from kernel.org and
in the source tree I see:
/tmp/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35-git1/drivers/staging/rtl8192e

I do not have this interface so I do not build it.

Good luck,

JD