Realtek rtl8192e wireless not seen

[tonyps]

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 ...

[valros]

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.

[mjerkovic]

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??

[Dude-PWB-]

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.

[tonyps]

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 ...

[Dude-PWB-]

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.

[ebb3771]

I just bought a Toshiba Satellite L555D-S7005, and installed Ubuntu 9.10 32 bit on it. The wireless network card does not work out of the box. I fixed it with the following protocol:

1. Go to device manager in Windows 7 (preloaded on this laptop) and see what driver is installed for the wireless card. In my case, it says "Realtek RTL8191SE".

2. Go to the Realtek web page and download the driver for the IEEE 802.11b/g/n chipset that matches the name of the driver Windows 7 was using. The Realtek page is here: http://152.104.125.41/downloads/down...&GetDown=false

3. Unpack the archive, and execute the following in the unpacked directory in a terminal window (exactly as in Dude-PWB-'s instructions):

sudo make
sudo su
make install

That's it. I actually ran "./wlan0up" after "make install", like Dude-PWB recommends, but I'm not convinced it's necessary. The wireless card worked immediately, without logging out or rebooting. I didn't have to modify any system files to make it load after rebooting either.

Cheers,
E

[jcanini]

I followed Dude-PWB advice and got hold of the rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0012.1210.2009 file and installed it with the make and make install commands and and wireless device worked after reboot on my N140 notepad running Ubuntu notebook remix. Thanks Dude your help is very much appreciated.
Today I installed automatic updates with the 2.6.31.19 kernel and the wireless device did not work.
When I reboot with the 2.6.31.17 kernel the device works perfectly, so just wanted to post this to alert people to possible issues with the new kernel.

Just read moaoci comment above about reinstalling the driver every kernel update, not an ideal situation but at least it works.

[pirxter]

Greetings,

I have a Samsung R463 notebook bought in Shanghai, which apparently seems to be otherwise sold in Russia only, at least this is my impression after extensive googling.

The Realtek 8192e inside works fine under Windows XP out of the box, whereas Windows 7 needs the driver from the Realtek website.

Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit identified the device correctly, but no driver from the Realtek website worked after correct compilation.

I had a great response from Realtek about the issue, phantastic support. They e-mailed me the updated 64-bit driver source after a few days. This driver worked on an updated version of Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit, however, it required manual start every time.

After extensive experimenting resulting in a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit, it now works flawlessly.

e-mail Realtek support for the driver.

[AeroRange]

My Ubuntu 9.10 (64-bit) crashed and error when booted with wireless turned on after I installed the windows driver with ndiswrapper.
While I haven't receive email reply from realtek yet.