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    Realtek rtl8192e wireless not seen

    Realtek rtl8192e wireless concerns Here it is...
    lspci -nn

    02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8192] (rev 01)
    03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)

    So, I have read through and tried pretty much all of the suggestions/procedures for getting the wireless working, with no success...the wired works great....
    If anyone has any other useful suggestions or success at getting this to work, I would greatly appreciate you chiming in here...

    Thanks again,
    Tony ...

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    Re: Realtek rtl8192e wireless not seen

    Bump, I just bought a brand new laptop, Toshiba L505-S5990. It comes with Realtek RTL8192E as a network card and it is not being recognized, please someone solve this.

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    Re: Realtek rtl8192e wireless not seen

    I am having the same problem. I have also followed the numerous suggestions in other threads but I still cannot see the wireless card.

    I am running the 64-bit version of 9.04. My plan this weekend is to try and upgrade to 9.10 and follow the same process again to see if that fixes it.

    I read somewhere that the kernel shipped with 9.10 has a driver in the staging area that might work with the 8192 chipset??

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    Re: Realtek rtl8192e wireless not seen

    I just got my 8192e wireless working with ndiswrapper and the windows xp drivers from the realtek site. They seem to work well.

    Not what i really wanted but here's to hoping we can get this chipset supported in the linux community.

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    Re: Realtek rtl8192e wireless not seen

    Thanks for the response! I had tried this in the past with no success. I am running the 64bit version of Ubuntu 9.0.4, so I am wondering if this might have something to do with it. Maybe that and the fact that I am not knowledgable on how to correctly accomplish the ndiswrapper thing....
    Were the drivers you used new ones? for 64 bit OS? Does it matter?

    Thanks,

    Tony ...

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    Re: Realtek rtl8192e wireless not seen

    Well, there wasn't an option to download 64bit drivers (that I recall). But, I was/am using the 32bit version of ubuntu booting off a live usb key.

    The simplest way to explain it is that I installed ndiswrapper from the synaptic package manager, downloaded the appropriate windows drivers from the realtek site, extracted them to a folder on the desktop, opened ndiswrapper from System>Administration and simply clicked add driver, navigated to my folder on the desktop, located the windows xp driver and even though it popped up a couple errors, the wireless took right off and found all my nearby access points.

    However, once I finally got online with my wireless, I sent an e-mail to realtek asking them if they had any future plans to support this adapter in linux.

    And to my surprise, about 3 hours later, not only did I get a reply from realtek, but they attached the linux driver to the e-mail.

    I haven't tried it yet, and not sure if we are allowed to attach drivers/files to the forum, but I am planning on trying them again tomorrow when I have more time. I will report back with my success/failures on that end.

    Untill then, the windows xp driver and ndiswrapper are working fine.

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    Re: Realtek rtl8192e wireless not seen

    Well, unfortunately, the realtek supplied linux drivers did not work.

    From what i have been able to find out so far, is that there is something new in the 2.6.31 kernel that does not allow the drivers to compile properly.

    I have tried to get them to compile the only way my limited experience knows how.

    Here are my errors, in case anyone else knows how to make this work for me. It was from a Live USB install.

    Code:
    ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009$ sudo make
    make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic'
      CC [M]  /home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.o
      CC [M]  /home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.o
      CC [M]  /home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.o
      CC [M]  /home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009/ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.o
    /home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009/ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.c: In function ‘ieee80211_wx_get_encode_ext_rsl’:
    /home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009/ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.c:846: warning: suggest parentheses around operand of ‘!’ or change ‘&’ to ‘&&’ or ‘!’ to ‘~’
      CC [M]  /home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.o
    /home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c: In function ‘alloc_ieee80211_rsl’:
    /home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c:121: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘hard_start_xmit’
    make[2]: *** [/home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.o] Error 1
    make[1]: *** [_module_/home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009/ieee80211] Error 2
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic'
    make: *** [all] Error 2
    And:

    Code:
    ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009$ sudo su
    root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009# make
    make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic'
      CC [M]  /home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.o
    /home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c: In function ‘alloc_ieee80211_rsl’:
    /home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c:121: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘hard_start_xmit’
    make[2]: *** [/home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.o] Error 1
    make[1]: *** [_module_/home/ubuntu/Desktop/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0008.0106.2009/ieee80211] Error 2
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic'
    make: *** [all] Error 2
    So unfortunately the realtek linux drivers will not work for me.

    The windows drivers will work with ndiswrapper, but I would be much happier if there was a straight up linux driver for this wireless device. Using a windows driver in my linux install almost makes me feel dirty.

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    Re: Realtek rtl8192e wireless not seen

    I think this is enough .....
    I do agree with you. Those are the most effective way

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    Re: Realtek rtl8192e wireless not seen

    So I was able to get the XP64bit driver working in a manual ndiswrapper install. When I run a ndiswrapper -l check, I get the following message:
    Code:
    WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
    net819xp : driver installed
        device (10EC:8192) present
    I then ran, on the advice of the ndiswrapper wifidocs page:
    Code:
    sudo depmod -a
    sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
    Nothing showed up in the terminal when I ran both commands and still there is no ath0 when I run iwconfig. I still get this:
    Code:
    lo        no wireless extensions.
    
    eth0      no wireless extensions.
    I'm gonna try another driver but it's not looking good so far...
    (EDIT: tried 32 bit with same steps with same results)
    Last edited by BizCasFri; November 15th, 2009 at 10:13 PM.

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    Re: Realtek rtl8192e wireless not seen

    So... I feel like an idiot. I shut down my laptop earlier today, and now upon booting it, my wireless works!

    The driver can be found here.

    Then follow the standard install procedure found here

    Then reboot. Great success!

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