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    Unhappy Realtek RTL8188CE wireless driver

    Hello
    I've just purchased a Toshiba Satellite L670D laptop and installed Ubuntu 10.10. Everything works fine excepting the most important thing, the wireless internet connection.
    I've ran the test which said "Unclaimed" and then I followed the procedure to install a Windows driver. The installation program says the driver is installed but the test still shows "unclaimed".
    I am really stuck, any ideas please?

    I also obtained the driver for Ubuntu but the "readme" file suggests that it takes such skills to install that I do not have.

    Thanks for your help

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    Re: Realtek RTL8188CE wireless driver

    I am also looking for this driver... Can you share the link for installing the windows driver and I will try it and see if I can help

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    Re: Realtek RTL8188CE wireless driver

    Both the windows and Ubuntu drivers are at:
    http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...true#RTL8188CE

    Thanks

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    Re: Realtek RTL8188CE wireless driver

    Quote Originally Posted by dushyanthan View Post
    I am also looking for this driver... Can you share the link for installing the windows driver and I will try it and see if I can help
    Might want to read this thread esp. post 7.

    http://guide.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1580036

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    Re: Realtek RTL8188CE wireless driver

    I've done what is suggested at http://guide.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1580036 but it didn't help. I am still getting Unclaimed, please see below:
    *-network UNCLAIMED
    description: Network controller
    product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    physical id: 0
    bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
    version: 01
    width: 64 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
    configuration: latency=0
    resources: ioport:d000(size=256) memory:ff600000-ff603fff
    *-network
    description: Ethernet interface
    product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
    vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    physical id: 0
    bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
    logical name: eth0
    version: 05
    serial: 88:ae:1d:e6:c6:3d
    size: 10MB/s
    capacity: 100MB/s
    width: 64 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
    configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
    resources: irq:27 ioport:c000(size=256) memory:d0104000-d0104fff(prefetchable) memory:d0100000-d0103fff(prefetchable)
    ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

    Any ideas please?
    Thanks in advance

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    Lightbulb Re: Realtek RTL8188CE wireless driver

    After some trial following instructions on this post this is what worked for me:

    1) Go to Rhttp://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...true#RTL8188CE and download the tar.gz file

    2) open terminal and do 'sudo apt-get install build-essential'

    3) Follow the readme file's instructions:

    • sudo su
    • make
    • make install
    • reboot

    When I logged in again I was on WiFi....

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    Re: Realtek RTL8188CE wireless driver

    I'm trying over and over but something obviously doesn't work or I do something wrong. It seams that Ubuntu responds and there is activity after each command.
    Going through the terminal I noticed some arrors that were displayed:

    Error1:
    make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-25-generic/build M= CC=gcc modules
    make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-25-generic'
    CHK include/linux/version.h
    CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
    SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
    make[3]: *** No rule to make target `kernel/bounds.c', needed by `kernel/bounds.s'. Stop.
    make[2]: *** [prepare0] Error 2
    make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-25-generic'
    make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2


    Error2:
    /driver/HAL/rtl8192/../../rtllib/rtllib_rx.c:1128: warning: the frame size of 1040 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes


    Any ideas please?


    Thanks

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    Re: Realtek RTL8188CE wireless driver

    Quote Originally Posted by Zippy777 View Post
    make[3]: *** No rule to make target `kernel/bounds.c', needed by `kernel/bounds.s'. Stop.
    make[2]: *** [prepare0] Error 2
    make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-25-generic'
    make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
    I am getting the exact same error message. Can anyone help?

    Benoît Gauthier
    Gatineau, Quebec

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    Re: Realtek RTL8188CE wireless driver

    It built perfectly for me just now; not even the slightest warning. I see that you have kernel-headers installed. Do you have build-essential installed? If not, install it and do:
    Code:
    make clean
    make
    sudo make install
    "Oh, Ubuntu, you are my favorite Linux-based operating system" --Dr. Sheldon Cooper, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D.

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    Re: Realtek RTL8188CE wireless driver

    Quote Originally Posted by chili555 View Post
    Do you have build-essential installed? If not, install it and do:
    It was quite a struggle to get "build-essential" installed without an Internet connection, but I have succeeded by copying .deb packages from one computer to another on a USB key. Such that now "apt-get install build-essential" now reports that the most recent version is installed.

    However, I still get the same "sudo make install" error as before.

    Code:
    benoit@benoit-Satellite-L670:~/rtl8192ce_linux_2.6.0003.0628.2010$ sudo make install
    make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic-pae »
      Building modules, stage 2.
      MODPOST 1 modules
    make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic-pae »
    kernel/ubuntu/rtl8192se/r8192se_pci.ko:
    make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire « /home/benoit/rtl8192ce_linux_2.6.0003.0628.2010/HAL/rtl8192 »
    make -C /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic-pae/build M= CC=gcc modules
    make[2]: entrant dans le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic-pae »
      HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
      HOSTCC  scripts/basic/docproc
      HOSTCC  scripts/basic/hash
      HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
    scripts/kconfig/conf.c: In function ‘conf_askvalue’:
    scripts/kconfig/conf.c:105: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
    scripts/kconfig/conf.c: In function ‘conf_choice’:
    scripts/kconfig/conf.c:307: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
      HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o
      HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
      HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
    scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86/Kconfig
    make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic-pae »
    make[2]: entrant dans le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic-pae »
      CHK     include/linux/version.h
      CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
      UPD     include/generated/utsrelease.h
    make[3]: *** Pas de règle pour fabriquer la cible « kernel/bounds.c », nécessaire pour « kernel/bounds.s ». Arrêt.
    make[2]: *** [prepare0] Erreur 2
    make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic-pae »
    make[1]: *** [modules] Erreur 2
    make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /home/benoit/rtl8192ce_linux_2.6.0003.0628.2010/HAL/rtl8192 »
    make: *** [install] Erreur 2
    New pointers, anyone?

    Benoit

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