Maverick Wireless problem on Toshiba a505-s6958

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After hours of searching and trying different methods I am still unable to get my wireless going.. I have tried the PPA method from Chilli and looked through craneman's thread. I have installed the proper realtek driver and done modprobe for the device to no avail. In Additional drivers nothing shows except for my ATI drivers. I would really appreciate some help. Also I am using Maverick.

here is some useful commands that may help diagnose


dnkbd@losnix:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:33:bd:d5:10
inet addr:192.168.1.104 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21e:33ff:febd:d510/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:931 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:892 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:844456 (844.4 KB) TX bytes:168503 (168.5 KB)
Interrupt:45 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:480 (480.0 B) TX bytes:480 (480.0 B)

dnkbd@losnix:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not permitted
dnkbd@losnix:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 802.11bgn ESSID:"g\xC6isQ\xFFJ\xEC)\xCD\xBA\xAB\xF2\xFB\xE3F |\xC2T\xF8\x1B\xE8\xE7\x8DvZ.c3\x9F\xC9\x9A"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
Retryn RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
dnkbd@losnix:~$ sudo lshw -C Network
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL8192E Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 00:22:5f:98:f6:07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl819xE ip=64.78.178.63 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=802.11bgn
resources: irq:16 ioport:6000(size=256) memory:e7200000-e7203fff
*-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: 02
serial: 00:1e:33:bd:d5:10
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.1.104 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:45 ioport:4000(size=256) memory:e1010000-e1010fff memory:e1000000-e100ffff memory:e1020000-e103ffff

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No help? really? I am so frustrated.... lshw -C Network shows that it is there, though it is marked disabled, that command also show that it is using the rtl8192e driver, which matches the card I have... I am running out of ideas please help

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bump in desperate need of help

[eldergs]

Hi. I have the same problem and notebook. But, readying so many forum and post, I resolved the problem.

Sorry for my bad english.

First, open your terminal.

Run the code:

lsmod | grep 819

I think will show:

r8192e_pci
r8192se_pci

This is the conflicting drivers.

Now, run this code (to add r8192se_pci in blacklist):

sudo su
echo "blacklist r8192se_pci" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
exit

Reboot

Now, Download the newest driver from realtek, they mail me with instructions and file (I post in some servers)

http://eldergs.4shared.com
http://hotfile.com/dl/107013470/ed38...10.tar.gz.html
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F2R0S36T

Now do what the support from realtek say:

Hi Sir,

Thanks for your email.

Please find the attached for latest RTL8192E 32bit and 64bit Linux driver which is the updated one different from the one you used.

Just kindly remind, please install by the below steps.
The following is the installing steps:
1. Change to the driver directory
2. sudo su
3. make
4. make install
5.reboot
6. ./wlan0up or ./wlan1up

Note: 1. if permission denied, change perperty with `chmod 777 wlan0up`
2. or enable driver with `ifconfig wlanx up`(wlanx denote wlan interface name).

If your OS is 64bit, maybe there is kernel self driver for RTL8192E, you should delet it first before install:


1) cd /lib/modules/2.6.3x.xx.xx/
2) find -name "r8192e_pci.ko"
3) delet all the r8192e_pci.ko
4) install our RTL8192E driver
5) reboot.


if there’s still any other problem, please let us know.
Thanks a lot

Regards,
Kidman

Reboot

Now, You can use your Wireless and have fun.