RE: 8712U driver for CentOS 6.6
From: Lee Maou Sheng <hidden>
Date: 2015-08-21 07:11:46
Hi Larry, Thank you for the reply. Our clone image standardized for all outlets for the convenience of maintenance but somehow we have client would like to do on wireless instead of wired. I am very appreciate if you are able to build on that kernel. Thank you very much! Best Regards, Lee Maou Sheng Software Engineer Archer Logic (S) Pte. Ltd. 6 Ubi Road 1, Wintech Centre #05-01, Singapore 408726 Tel: (65) 6785 9007 ext. 109 -----Original Message----- From: Larry Finger [mailto:larry.finger@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Larry Finger Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 1:50 PM To: Lee Maou Sheng <redacted>; linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 8712U driver for CentOS 6.6 On 08/20/2015 10:40 PM, Lee Maou Sheng wrote:
Hi sir, I am from Singapore and currently our company is trying to install Prolink WN2001 wireless adapter into Dell PowerEdge T20 with Centos 6.6 installed. I am using https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su for the
driver.
The information I have as below: uname -a Linux ts41 2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 13 22:55:16 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 07b8:8179 AboCom Systems Inc make [root@ts41 rtl8192su]# make make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64/build M=/var/tmp/rtl8192su/rtlwifi CONFIG_RTL_CARDS=y CONFIG_RTLWIFI=m CONFIG_RTLWIFI_DEBUG=y CONFIG_RTLWIFI_DEBUGFS=y CONFIG_RTLWIFI_USB=m CONFIG_RTLWIFI_PCI=m CONFIG_RTL8192SU=m CONFIG_RTL8192SE=m CONFIG_RTL8192S_COMMON=m CONFIG_RTL8192CU=n CONFIG_RTL8192DE=n CONFIG_RTL8192CE=n CONFIG_RTL8192C_COMMON=n CONFIG_RTL8723AE=n CONFIG_RTL8188EE=n EXTRA_CFLAGS="-DDEBUG -DCONFIG_RTLWIFI_DEBUGFS=m" make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64' CC [M] /var/tmp/rtl8192su/rtlwifi/usb.o /var/tmp/rtl8192su/rtlwifi/usb.c: In function '_rtl_prep_rx_urb': /var/tmp/rtl8192su/rtlwifi/usb.c:437: error: implicit declaration of function 'usb_alloc_coherent' /var/tmp/rtl8192su/rtlwifi/usb.c:438: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast /var/tmp/rtl8192su/rtlwifi/usb.c: In function '_rtl_usb_cleanup_rx': /var/tmp/rtl8192su/rtlwifi/usb.c:688: error: implicit declaration of function 'usb_free_coherent' make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/rtl8192su/rtlwifi/usb.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/rtl8192su/rtlwifi] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64' make: *** [all] Error 2
That device is not an RTL8192SU. It is an RTL8188EU, which has a driver at http://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu.git; however, that version probably will not build on a kernel as old as 2.6.32. I try to allow a build for kernels as old as 3.0, but yours is quite a bit older. Is there any reason that you cannot upgrade to a newer kernel? The driver you need was added to the kernel in 3.19. Larry