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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:16:25 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Jan Simonson <jan@simonson.se>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RTL8192e-pci NIC
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On 04/09/2012 02:26 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 10:57:03AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>
>> As I do not use Fedora, I was not aware of Fusion. Perhaps you could
>> get them to reinstate this driver in their package. In addition, you
>> might post a bug at Redhat in hopes that they will change their
>> standard configuration. As a last resort, you could switch to a
>> distro that includes this driver in their standard kernels.
>
> Yeah, this is reasonable advice.  I don't know why Fusion droped this
> package, but it might have been due to me making their life harder by
> integrating compat-wireless directly into the Fedora kernels.  Since I
> am no longer doing that, they may be willing to reverse that decision.
>
> I don't really see including a staging driver in Fedora unless it is
> clearly on the path to the "normal" part of the kernel.  Any chance
> of that?

Yes, but not likely very soon. This card is relatively rare, and there are 
several drivers for more common Realtek devices in staging.

@Jan - There is one other option. As you can compile drivers, I will prepare a 
tested copy of the driver that will compile on all recent kernels, and put the 
source on my ftp site.

Larry