Bug 379953 – net-wireless/rtlwifi{,-firmware} new package

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description renato gallo 2011-08-20 10:51:49 UTC]

realtek renamed the driver archive the new version is called 92ce_se_de_linux_mac80211_0003.0620.2011.tar.gz 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge rtl8192se

Actual Results:  
it tries to emerge the old version and fails

Expected Results:  
it emerges the new version which works with gentoo-sources version 3.0.3

[Comment 1 renato gallo 2011-08-20 10:53:44 UTC]

Created attachment 284005 [details]
realtek rtl8192se driver archive

this is the archive from realtek it contains the drivers for 
rtl8192de
rtl8192se

[Comment 2 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2011-08-20 14:15:54 UTC]

Actually that is an entirely new driver, based on the rtlwifi driver which is now in kernel 3.0.
See attachment 282195 [details] for an ebuild (I didn't test that).

[Comment 3 renato gallo 2011-08-24 03:57:01 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Actually that is an entirely new driver, based on the rtlwifi driver which is
> now in kernel 3.0.
> See attachment 282195 [details] for an ebuild (I didn't test that).

Moved to gentoo-sources-3.0.3 and unmerged the old driver