On 09/21/2011 09:06 PM, ganser694 wrote:
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> Very sorry if it will not work I will switch distos.
It will work, but you need to do the things I ask. The reason I know it will
work is that I’m using that card at the moment. In addition, I am the one that
entered the driver into the kernel.
If you use another distro with a kernel older than 2.6.38, it still won’t work.
On 09/22/2011 06:16 AM, ganser694 wrote:
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> Problem is I did the things you asked, Would using the 12.1 dev work?
I asked you to check if the firmware is installed, and gave very specific
instructions that you did not respond to.
Specifically, I wrote “You have the driver, but the firmware is not installed.
Did you add the kernel-firmware package the way I suggested? Use YaST =>
Software Management and search for “firmware” to check.” You responded with
lspci output. That describes the hardware. What I wanted was a look at the
installed software. Quite a difference.
The only difference between 11.4 and 12.1 is that the driver is in the kernel
and you would not need the compat-wireless package. You would still need the
firmware, which is the part you do noit have now.
On 09/22/2011 05:36 PM, ganser694 wrote:
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> First command
> Code:
> --------------------
> bash: ls /lib/firmware/rtlwifi: No such file or directory
> --------------------
In the file list for the kernel-firmware package are the following:
The first ‘bin’ file is the one you need. If kernel-firmware is really
installed, those files would be there. The version is 20110709-8.2-noarch.
> second command: No output
What is going on? Did you change kernels? Earlier the driver was loading - when
that happens, you either get the message that the firmware was loaded, or you
get the one that the firmware was not found, but you never get nothing!
On 10/15/2011 04:46 PM, daousley wrote:
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> I’m going through the same issues, and have followed the advice given so
> far (installing kernel-firmware, etc.)
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>> What does ‘lsmod | grep 8192’ show?
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> nothing
>
>> What happens with ‘sudo /sbin/modprobe -v rtl8192ce’?
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> FATAL: Module rtl8192ce not found
>
> –
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> rtl8192cfw.bin is in /lib/firmware/rtlwifi.
>
> Any ideas? (Please)
You still did say why the driver disappeared. It was there once and then was
gone. Something happened.
I’m not the same person as in the earlier posts – just having the same problem. I don’t know that it was once there. If the driver is the file rtl82192cfw.bin, then it is there – at least in /lib/firmware/rtlwifi. This is a new machine, and I have not yet gotten the wireless to work in linux (it works in windows, so I assume the hardware is okay). The card at this point does not show up in networkmanager or yast. lspci shows that the card is present. iwlist scan shows only lo and eth0, which do not support scanning. I’ve double checked all the things which need to be installed (compat-firmware, etc.), and have only one kernel (desktop) installed. If output of specific commands would help. let me know and I will post. Thanks.
On 10/16/2011 05:46 PM, daousley wrote:
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> I’m not the same person as in the earlier posts – just having the same
> problem. I don’t know that it was once there. If the driver is the
> file rtl82192cfw.bin, then it is there – at least in
> /lib/firmware/rtlwifi. This is a new machine, and I have not yet gotten
> the wireless to work in linux (it works in windows, so I assume the
> hardware is okay). The card at this point does not show up in
> networkmanager or yast. lspci shows that the card is present. iwlist
> scan shows only lo and eth0, which do not support scanning. I’ve double
> checked all the things which need to be installed (compat-firmware,
> etc.), and have only one kernel (desktop) installed. If output of
> specific commands would help. let me know and I will post. Thanks.
Guess what? /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin is FIRMWARE. It is not a
driver. The driver is named rtl8192ce.ko. It became part of the kernel in kernel
2.6.38, thus the standard openSUSE 11.4 kernel does not have it built in.
You need to (1) install the compat-wireless package, (2) install a kernel 2.6.38
or later, (3) download the driver from the Realtek site and build it yourself,
or (4) build a new kernel from source. I ranked them in order of increasing
difficulty. You pick the solution you want.
>> You need to (1) install the compat-wireless package, (2) install a kernel 2.6.38
>>or later, (3) download the driver from the Realtek site and build it yourself,
>>or (4) build a new kernel from source. I ranked them in order of increasing
>>difficulty. You pick the solution you want.
I have verified that compat-wireless is installed for desktop kernel. rtl8192ce.ko is present in /lib/modules/2/6/37/1-1.2-desktop/updates/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/
Does this satisfy #1? If so, any guesses as to why it doesn’t work?
nothing: I went through the output, also grepped 8188, Realtek and wireless: all blank
Is the driver loaded?
I’m not sure how to tell (I only go through this occasionally, and forget a lot by the next time I do it – pls bear with me)
modprobe -v rtl8192ce
FATAL: Module rtl8192ce not found.
What does ‘/usr/sbin/rfkill list’ show?
also blank
Have you read the stickies at the beginning of this forum?
On 10/17/2011 11:06 AM, daousley wrote:
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> Yes. What does dmesg show?
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> nothing: I went through the output, also grepped 8188, Realtek and
> wireless: all blank
>
> Is the driver loaded?
>
> I’m not sure how to tell (I only go through this occasionally, and
> forget a lot by the next time I do it – pls bear with me)
The command is lsmod.
> modprobe -v rtl8192ce
> FATAL: Module rtl8192ce not found.
You have no driver installed. It is not in the kernel until 2.6.38. Get the
compat-wireless package for the kernel you use. How to do these is described
several places in the forum.
comapt-wireless-kmp-desktop and compat-wireless-scripts are installed. (I mentioned this a few messages back.) I have reinstalled them to be sure. I followed the directions in this forum about adding the wireless repository. They show up installed in Yast.