I have recently installed openSUSE 11.2 on my brand new Toshiba A505-S6035 laptop, which has an integrated Realtek RTL8191SE wireless card in it. It’s not working and I can’t for the life of me find any drivers for it, after hours of googling. I also have tried to install ndiswrapper 1.56 to see if that would work but when I try ‘make’ in the directory, it gives me this error:
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/phil/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver'
Makefile:23: *** Kernel tree not found - please set KBUILD to configured kernel. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/phil/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2
On 06/29/2010 03:16 PM, phil a wrote:
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> I have recently installed openSUSE 11.2 on my brand new Toshiba
> A505-S6035 laptop, which has an integrated Realtek RTL8191SE wireless
> card in it. It’s not working and I can’t for the life of me find any
> drivers for it, after hours of googling. I also have tried to install
> ndiswrapper 1.56 to see if that would work but when I try ‘make’ in the
> directory, it gives me this error:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> make -C driver
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/phil/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver’
Makefile:23: *** Kernel tree not found - please set KBUILD to configured kernel. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/phil/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver’
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> --------------------
>
>
> Can somebody help me get wireless working?
I cannot help you with ndiswrapper until we have shown that there is no
Linux driver for the device. In any case, the prebuilt version of
ndiswrapper for your kernel should be OK. It is likely the Winblows driver
that is failing.
PLease run the command
lspci -nnk
and post the section that describes your Realtek device.
Well, I got the wireless working by building the driver from source which was a hassle, and now nautilus broke. No desktop icons show up and right clicking on the desktop doesn’t do anything. Going to a console and typing ‘nautilus’ results in “Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display:”. Sorry, I’m really new to linux and have no idea what to do, could someone help again?
Finally, everything’s working. So people who have the same problem will know, here’s what I did:
I installed the drivers for the RTL8191SE wireless card from here (get the Unix/Linux version): Realtek
(Although it says RTL8191SE-VA2, it still works perfectly).
After ‘make’ and ‘make install’ ing that, after like an hour of compiling and installing, it ended with an error or something, but I restarted and wireless was working. For some reason this screwed Nautilus, and after searching around for an hour, I found that renaming ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus to nautilus.bak and restarting (logging out and back in would probably work too, this is linux) nautilus worked fine again, though it resetted a few configurations, not a big problem. Probably a config file got corrupted or something.