Realtek RTL8187B

[John W. Linville]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 01:17:34AM -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> Have installed F9 (er, well, rawhide anyway as of today) is why asking
> on this list.
> 
> This wireless driver is in my laptop that I bought from Best Buy, which
> is a Gateway laptop.  I thought Realtek drivers were opensourced?  Or at
> least I guess maybe only wired drivers are?  I can't seem to get the
> laptop to recognize the wireless driver.  It's connected in there
> somehow via usb, which lsusb does show the driver.
> 
> Do I have to use ndiswrapper to make this work or should it work out of
> the box?  If out of the box, what steps to get it to load and be
> recognized?

This is being worked-on, but it is not there yet:

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432280

Hth!

John
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John W. Linville
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