On 06/12/2013 08:36 AM, rbarsoianu wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I just bought and plugged in a new wireless card, and it dosn’t appear
> anywhere. The card is properly installed, “hwinfo --wlan” dosn’t show
> anything, however in Yast - Hardware Information the card shows up. It
> does not have a Device Name in it. Here is the output of Hardware
> Information.
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> 35: PCI 200.0: 0280 Network controller
> [Created at pci.319]
> Unique ID: B35A.ngDgP9ghWr1
> Parent ID: z8Q3.PybyPiv0JtF
> SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0
> SysFS BusID: 0000:02:00.0
> Hardware Class: network
> Model: “Realtek Network controller”
> Vendor: pci 0x10ec “Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.”
> Device: pci 0x8178
> SubVendor: pci 0x1043 “ASUSTeK Computer Inc.”
> SubDevice: pci 0x84b6
> Revision: 0x01
> Driver: “rtl8192ce”
> Driver Modules: “rtl8192ce”
> I/O Ports: 0xd000-0xdfff (rw)
> Memory Range: 0xf7b00000-0xf7b03fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
> IRQ: 16 (22393 events)
> Module Alias: “pci:v000010ECd00008178sv00001043sd000084B6bc02sc80i00”
> Driver Info #0:
> Driver Status: rtl8192ce is active
> Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe rtl8192ce”
> Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
> Attached to: #25 (PCI bridge)
>
> --------------------
>
>
> I’m sure this is the new card, it shows 2, one is the Intel i have
> on-board with Device Name eth0, and the wireless i bought is an Asus
> PCE-N15 PCI-E. The rtl8192ce showed in the description above refers to
> an “Single-Chip IEEE 802.11b/g/n 2T2R WLAN Controller with PCI Express
> Interface.”
>
> How do i actually use this card, assign a Device Name for it (wlan0) ?
> Everywhere i read about this it sad that it shows up directly into
> network manager as wlan0 (unconfigured), however for me it dosn’t.
If you are not getting a wlanX device for the Realtek unit, the first thing you
need to do is to verify that the kernel-firmware package is installed on your
computer. As you had no wireless at installation, the system would have skipped
that step. Get the firmware and another useful package with
sudo zypper install kernel-firmware
sudo zypper install rfkill
If those two packages were already installed, then zypper will report that it
has nothing to do. If the firmware was not previously installed, then you will
need to do the following:
sudo /sbin/modprobe -r rtl8192ce
sudo /sbin/modprobe rtl8192ce
/usr/sbin/iwconfig
/usr/sbin/rfkill kist
/usr/sbin/iwlist scan
Note: The first two should be a one-time only step. If iwconfig shows a wlan0
device, rfkill shows no hard or soft locks, and iwlist shows your access point,
then you should only need to use the NetworkManager Connection Manager to
specify the encryption for your connection, and use it to connect.
If these instructions do not get you a working connection, then post the output
of the iwconfig, rfkill, and iwlist commands in the next posting, You will also
need to specify the version of openSUSE that you use, and which desktop (KDE,
Gnome, ??) that you use.
Finally, although wireless devices are indeed “hardware”, they have their own
set of problems, and we have a special Wireless Forum just for them. There is no
need to move this thread (at least not yet), but I recommend that you read the
stickies (the first 3 postings) in that forum. It should give you a better
understanding of the process of troubleshooting a wireless device.