The mainline driver and firmware for the devices in the title is now available
for openSUSE 11.3 in the Wireless repo at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/driver:/wireless/openSUSE_11.3/. This
driver services those units with PCI ID 10ec:XXXX, where XXXX is 8176, 8177,
8178, or 8191.
My thanks to Realtek for their cooperation. In the coming months, there will be
other Realtek drivers in the kernel. The plan is to get to the situation where
users no longer have to compile their own driver.
On 12/17/2010 07:36 PM, rodhuffaker wrote:
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> Good news. I wish all companies would get onboard with Linux drivers.
> The situation has improved drastically over the years though.
Actually, most are involved. Intel and Atheros have large groups working on
Linux drivers. Even Broadcom has contributed the brcm80211 driver to Linux.
I’m trying to build a custom Meego respin for my Dell Inspiron Mini 1018, using Smeego as a base. Said netbook uses the rtl8192ce WiFi chipset and a CSR-like bluetooth chipset from Motorola, as well as an x86-64 capable Intel Atom N455, and I wanted NTFS-3G included as I have some NTFS-formatted hard drives, hence I have at least three reasons to build a respin. I added the “Wireless” repo, and added the rtl8192ce and rtl8192ce-firmware packages. But when I built the respin, and booted it, the WiFi chipset remain unrecognized (I need WiFi badly, once I figure that out I’ll move on to the Bluetooth). The only way I’m able to get it online is to either use the LAN (recognized as it’s a common RTL8169 chipset) or WiMax USB dongle (which is recognized as a generic USB RDNIS adapter).
How exactly do I get this driver to work? Do I need the build tools and kernel source/headers, and actually compile this from source? Or do I wait until it gets contributed into the Kernel tree and subsequently built in the next OpenSuSE release? Please help, it’s stalling my progress.
As has been said in this forum many times, we need to know what device you have.
If it really is a PCI device, then post the output of the command ‘/sbin/lspci
-nnk’.
Ah, so it’s a PEBCAK error on my end. Didn’t realize I needed the KMP packages, thought they provided modules for virtualization kernels
Thanks so much for helping! Wireless now working, and I’ve also figured out how to get ACPI battery and Bluetooth working in the meantime. Loving what I’m seeing so far.
Well, then maybe “for the record” one might add, that this “kmp” simply stands for:
Kernel Module Package
The build system of openSUSE automatically creates different types of KMP-packages by default, one for each kernel flavor provided by the distribution kernel (default, desktop, pae, xen, …), so the user has to install the kmp package matching the running kernel (version and flavor).
Maybe someone would like to add the related PCI-IDs as tag to this thead?
If not - I hope I am at least able to deliver them for the normal message body search in plain text: