CentOS 6.5 install wireless network card driver tutorial

After installation of CentOS 6.5, many people can not connect to the wireless network, most of the results are not installed by the wireless network card driver, the following small series will introduce you how to install the wireless network card CentOS 6.5 Drive, interested friends to study together.

First, check whether the wireless network card driver

appear above results prove that you have not installed, not wireless Internet access. If you have already installed the network card driver and wireless Internet access will be able to achieve the following display:

Second, see the wireless network card model

[root @ Mr-zhao software] # lspci | Grep -i network

03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL 8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)

I can see my network card type For RTL8188CE

Third, check the system kernel version

[root@Mr-zhao software]# uname -r

2.6.32-431.el6.i686

Fourth, download the wireless network card driver according to your own network card model and system kernel version

Download address: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx? Langid=1&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&ProdID=228&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true

The thing to note here is that my kernel is 2.6.32 However, my Linux driver for kernel 2.6.24 (and later), version 2.6.24 failed to install successfully. Later, the Linux driver for kernel 2.6.23 (and earlier) version was successfully installed.

Five, will download the tar package, compile and install

Since the tar source package is compiled and installed, then there must be a compilation tool, or it will report an error!

1, [root@Mr-zhao software]# yum install gcc -y //Install gcc compiler tool

2. Unzip the tar source package and install it.

3, read the readme.txt file.

4, perform make; make install installation

error!

The solution is as follows:

yum install kernel-devel -y

5, make clean, then execute make; make install.

Sixth, you can connect to the wireless network by restarting the machine!

The above method is CentOS 6.5 install wireless network card driver introduced, when your computer can not access the Internet from the next check whether the driver is installed, if not installed, it can be described in this article Method processing.