Trouble installing wireless driver RTL8191SU

[damain]

Hello,
Maybe is was the fact that I have been configuring this my computer all day but I am having a problem installing the driver for the RTL8191SU driver. every time I use the make command the output is this
make
ARCH=i386 CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/2.6.39.4/build M=/home/user/rtl/driver/rtl8
modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.39.4'
WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.39.4/Module.symvers
is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.
CC [M] /home/user/rtl/driver/rtl8/cmd/rtl871x_cmd.o In file included from /home/user/rtl/driver/rtl8/include/drv_types.h:77,
from /home/user/rtl/driver/rtl8/cmd/rtl871x_cmd.c:24: /home/user/rtl/driver/rtl8/include/rtl871x_io.h:35:28: error: linux/smp_lock.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [/home/user/rtl/driver/rtl8/cmd/rtl871x_cmd.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/home/user/rtl/driver/rtl8] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.39.4' make: *** [modules] Error 2 I have spent sometime working on this and I have been using 2 pages mainly as reference http://andi.opensuse-id.org/2010/05/...r-on-opensuse/ and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1834478

here is what I am working with right now:
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root@bt:/home/user/rtl/driver# sudo lshw -c network
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: RTL8191SEvA Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: 10
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:3000(size=256) memory:d3500000-d3503fff
*-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: c8:0a:a9:c5:a4:0d
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=192.168.1.102 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:42 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:d1410000-d1410fff memory:d1400000-d140ffff memory:d1420000-d142ffff
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root@bt:/home/user/rtl/driver# lspci -nn | grep
0280 02:00.0
Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8191SEvA Wireless LAN Controller [10ec:8171] (rev 10)
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root@bt:/home/user/rtl/driver# iwconfig lo
no wireless extensions.
eth0
no wireless extensions.
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root@bt:/home/user/rtl/driver# rfkill list all 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
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root@bt:/home/user/rtl/driver# lsmod Module
Size Used by dm_crypt
14720 0 snd_hda_codec_hdmi 21630 1 joydev
8649 0 snd_hda_codec_realtek 248710 1 snd_hda_intel
21661 2 snd_hda_codec
80498 3
snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_i ntel snd_hwdep
5424 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm_oss
36427 0 snd_mixer_oss
13581 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm
68662 4
snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd _pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy
1358 0 snd_seq_oss
26216 0 snd_seq_midi
4460 0 snd_rawmidi
18745 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event
5720 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi snd_seq
45875 6
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event snd_timer
17803 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device
5281 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq lp
7373 0 parport
29468 1 lp snd
50697 17
snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_i ntel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer _oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_t imer,snd_seq_device uvcvideo
60284 0
hp_wmi
7748 0 soundcore
6048 1 snd sparse_keymap
3194 1 hp_wmi rfkill
14987 1 hp_wmi snd_page_alloc
6801 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm videodev
75797 1 uvcvideo psmouse 52655 0 wmi
8772 1 hp_wmi serio_raw
3744 0 mac_hid
3029 0 i915
476096 3 drm_kms_helper
31085 1 i915 drm
178158 4 i915,drm_kms_helper ahci
18634 2 intel_agp
9614 1 i915 i2c_algo_bit
4916 1 i915 intel_gtt
13296 3 i915,intel_agp libahci
19920 1 ahci r8169
36663 0 video
10930 1 i915
mii
4091 1 r8169 agpgart
27414 3 drm,intel_agp,intel_gtt

I am installing this new driver since my wifi is no longer working. It was working fine from the live CD but now it is no longer working once I installed onto my harddrive Thank you so much for you help

[bkratz]

Here is a really good thread about that device. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1674994

See post two especially.

[gandaran]

description: Network controller
product: RTL8191SEvA Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

you are installing the wrong driver, you need SEva not SU driver
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...Downloads=true
the RTL8191SU chipset works 'out of the box' on ubuntu 11.10 and 11.04, for 10.10 it just need a minor firmware fix and for 10.04 needs the full driver install.

[damain]

Thanks gandaran I knew it was something simple, a little bit of sleep goes a long way I guess. I am not quite out of the water yet though. my computer is recognizing my wireless now, it's showing a blue light. But the Wicd network manager is still not picking up any wireless signals. I've read the other topics. I've check out the other threads on this. It doesn't seem like people have problems once the driver is recognized, I am using wext. *edit*Ha ha, I got it sorry I just needed to add wlan0 to my wireless interface in wicd