Bug 2399

Summary:	Realtek 8192 driver needs updating
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Frank Griffin <ftg>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thomas Backlund <tmb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=21&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	dkms-r8192se-0019.1207.2010-2.mga1.noarch.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Frank Griffin 2011-08-09 17:41:50 CEST

The Realtek DKMS driver is no longer compatible with kernels at level 2.6.35 and above.  Realtek has a new version which is.

The existing driver won't build because certain generated include files (autoconf.h and modversions.h) have moved from include/linux to more specific subdirectories.

However, the driver at the above URL won't build on the current cauldron kernel either, because the RX_FLAG_TSFT definition in include/net/mac80211.h has been dropped in favor of the name RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU, and base.c will get an error because it uses the old name.  You'll need to patch base.c around line 840 to use the new name.

Thierry Vignaud 2011-08-11 10:22:15 CEST

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb

Comment 1 Frank Griffin 2011-08-11 12:22:47 CEST

Actually, there are other files which use RX_FLAG_TSFT.  I ended up patching base.h by adding:

#ifndef RX_FLAG_TSFT
#define  RX_FLAG_TSFT  RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU
#endif

That covers all of them.

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2011-11-01 00:46:01 CET

If I read bug 3186
"* backport rtlwifi from upstream 3.1 to add support for:
  * RTL8192SE/RTL8191SE PCIe
  * RTL8192DE/RTL8188DE PCIe
  * RTL8192CU/RTL8188CU USB
"

So we can close this bug ?

Comment 3 Frank Griffin 2012-01-10 17:40:04 CET

Closing, as I believe these drivers are now part of the kernel in 3.0+.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED