Needed to get the wireless card working, this is what l did.

My first partition already has Windows 7 installed. Both operating systems co-exist perfectly. Make sure you install Windows 7 first. I usually reserve about 45Gb from any laptop harddrive for my linux installations, this gives about 1.5Gb for the swap partiton and the rest dedicated to linux.

The card is a Realtek RT8191SE / 8102E – got this from Windows 7 command prompt by simply typing ipconfig/all

Download and extract the linux drivers from Realtek taiwan website here

Commands:

Change into the extracted files subdirectory then -
82  su -
83  ls
84  cd /home/steve/Downloads
85  ls -al
86  cp rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0015.0127.2010 /usr/src/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0015.0127.2010 -r
87  cd /usr/src/
88  ls -al
89  cd rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0015.0127.2010
90  ls
91  cp -rf firmware/RTL8192SE /lib/firmware
92  make
93  ls
94  cp HAL/rtl8192/r8192se_pci.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/
95  depmod -a
96  reboot

[steve@pegasus Documents]$ su -
Password:
[root@pegasus ~]# uname
Linux
[root@pegasus ~]# uname -a
Linux pegasus 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 21 05:33:33 UTC 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@pegasus ~]# yum clean all
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Cleaning up Everything
0 delta-package files removed, by presto
[root@pegasus ~]# uname -r
2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64
[root@pegasus ~]# rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64
[root@pegasus ~]# clear

[root@pegasus ~]# uname -r
2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64
[root@pegasus ~]# rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64
[root@pegasus ~]# yum remove kernel-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.31.5-127.fc12 set to be erased
–> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Removing:
kernel x86_64 2.6.31.5-127.fc12 installed 98 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Remove 1 Package(s)
Reinstall 0 Package(s)
Downgrade 0 Package(s)

Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Erasing : kernel-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 1/1

Removed:
kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.31.5-127.fc12

Complete!
[root@pegasus ~]# rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64
[root@pegasus ~]# yum remove kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.31.9-174.fc12 set to be erased
–> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Removing:
kernel x86_64 2.6.31.9-174.fc12 installed 98 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Remove 1 Package(s)
Reinstall 0 Package(s)
Downgrade 0 Package(s)

Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Erasing : kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 1/1

Removed:
kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.31.9-174.fc12

Complete!
[root@pegasus ~]# rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64
[root@pegasus ~]#