on wifi and/or NIC drivers

Victor Radu vicrrv at gmail.com
Mon Feb 21 05:31:21 UTC 2011


Hi Sachin,
 You mean download the sources and compile them in
 a module to be  loaded  into the kernel ?
 I would want to do it but I don't know where to find/look for
 the sources for the 2 I/Fs.
If you could pass me a pointer to a C-source code would
 be great.
 Thx much
 Victor



On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:41 PM, sachin <sachin.murudkar at netcore.co.in>wrote:

> Hi
>
> I feel is download the driver for the lan cards and compile it manually
> because you never know which rpms and dependencies might cause you
> problem... So why don't download and compile...
>
>
> Regards
>
> Sachin
>
>
> On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 10:30 -0800, Victor Radu wrote:
> > We installed RHEL5_x64 on one of our machines and
> > the 2 network interface drivers : Realtek RTL-8185 and Atheros RTL8185
> were
> > not found.
> > I could not find linux  64bit drivers for these 2 interfaces on the web
> > On the other hand I loaded Fefora14_x64 and both interfaces were found
> and
> > drivers loaded well.
> > I do need to use RHEL5 for other applications that will not run on
> Fedora.
> > My question is
> > How can you identify the yum package or rpms from the DVD distribution (
> > from Fedora14 in this case) for each of the 2 network  interfaces.
> >
> > Thank you all
> >  Victor
>
>
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Victor



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