realtek rtl8188S

[JD]

  On 10/21/2010 05:37 PM, Chris Smart wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Terry Polzin<foxec208 at wowway.com>  wrote:
>> Broke down and bought a cheap mini usb wireless N device.
> Hi Terry,
>
> I have a similar device:
> Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0bda:8172 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8191S
> WLAN Adapter
>
> Which is a ginormous pain. AFAIK, there is a driver in kernel staging
> (r8192s_usb), but it's not shipped with standard Fedora kernel. I
> downloaded the driver from Realtek and compiled it, but loading the
> module segfaulted (and hard-locked) my F13 machine - even magic keys
> couldn't save it!
>
> This device "works" on Ubuntu 10.10 out of the box, because they ship
> the unstable driver. It also loads the eeprom_93cx6 module, presumably
> for loading firmware or something.
>
> I guess if you can build the staging drivers out of kernel, then you
> might have some luck.
>
> -c
Hi Chris,
I just posted the how-to.

Good luck to you too.

Cheers,

JD