[Maverick linux-firmware] Add link for RTL8192SU firmware

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Fri Feb 18 18:09:56 UTC 2011


On 02/18/2011 10:00 AM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> As I was able to test with some hardware in my hands, it seems that
> the r8192s_u module will work just fine with the firmware in RTL8192SE.
> So adding a simple link makes the hardware work out of the box.
> Unfortunately I could not verify whether the same is true for Natty as
> that hardware then uses the r8712u module which has its firmware built
> into the kernel driver.
>
> -Stefan
>
>  From dbfe6f0fecdfea587f3d4e285f2b1e8b9875578d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Stefan Bader<stefan.bader at canonical.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:31:40 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] UBUNTU: Add link for RTL8192SU firmware
>
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/721356
>
> Create a link from RTL8192SU ->  RTL8192SE as testing proved the same
> firmware works for both.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader<stefan.bader at canonical.com>
> ---
>   RTL8192SU |    1 +
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>   create mode 120000 RTL8192SU
>
> diff --git a/RTL8192SU b/RTL8192SU
> new file mode 120000
> index 0000000..366cadd
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/RTL8192SU
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +RTL8192SE
> \ No newline at end of file

applied and uploaded

-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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