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Bug 841737 - RHEL6 does not support RTL8192E wireless card.
Summary: RHEL6 does not support RTL8192E wireless card.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 6.3
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Stanislaw Gruszka
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-07-20 05:32 UTC by uchk
Modified: 2012-09-14 10:05 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-09-14 10:05:03 UTC
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Description uchk 2012-07-20 05:32:25 UTC 
Description of problem:
RHEL6 does not support RTL8192E wireless card.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.32-279

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Prepare a Computer with RTL8192E wireless card.
2.Install RHEL 6.
3.#ifconfig wlan0 up
  
Actual results:
failed

Expected results:
success

Additional info:
Debian Stable, Ubuntu LTS, and SLES all support RTL8192E!!
Comment 2 John W. Linville 2012-07-20 15:43:21 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 761525 ***
Comment 3 uchk 2012-07-20 16:00:17 UTC 
RTL8192E is RTL8192E, not rtl8192xe.
Comment 4 John W. Linville 2012-07-20 16:14:31 UTC 
My mistake -- you want a driver from the staging directory supported in RHEL6?

Please tell me why we would ever consider doing that?
Comment 5 uchk 2012-07-20 16:30:09 UTC 
Although RTL8192E driver is in the staging directory, but I think it is stable enough, because Debian Stable, Ubuntu LTS, and SLES all enable it.
Comment 6 John W. Linville 2012-07-31 19:49:46 UTC 
I don't see a business case for RHEL to support this staging driver.
Comment 7 Stanislaw Gruszka 2012-09-14 10:05:03 UTC 
I'm closing this with UPSTREAM resolution, that mean we could take driver when it will propagate out of staging.
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