[SOLVED]: F14 RC3: WiFi problem on Samsung netbooks

[Nathan Thomas]

On 24/10/10 20:13, Ron Leach wrote:
> Nathan Thomas wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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, just to say I tracked down a driver and installed it.  I
> didn't find any problems on booting.  The README with the driver was
> pretty good, but I had to also load the kernel source, and the gcc
> compilers, before I could create the driver - I hit these errors
> because, on a fairly light XFCE clean install, neither of these were
> already there (and I hadn't realised that).
Oops forgot to mention that bit, sorry!
> On the laptop list I've posted details of what I did, to help others
> because I think this chipset is common, and there are a lot of newer
> folk trying these netbooks who may otherwise find installing a driver
> from source too daunting (it isn't really).
>
> Thanks for your help and for the advice that there was a driver available.
Glad I was able to help!

Best wishes
Nathan