12.04 and RTL8101E/RTL8201E

[squakie]

If the 3.2 kernel has always been booting to that screen, perhaps that's a separate problem - the video. I'd try one of the video boot options to see if it will boot. But you need to decide which you want - the old kernel with working wireless, or if you're willing to work with getting the newer kernel running and the wireless working.

Didn't mean to intrude on your great work chilli555 - just thought perhaps the kernel issue is separate from the wireless.

[philwx]

I suspect so, or the r8101 compile would have stopped in an error or two. It didn't, did it? Didn't it compile without complaint?

Yes, it compiled without complaint

just thought perhaps the kernel issue is separate from the wireless.

Just to be clear - I am using a wired connection. It is true that I have never been able to start 12.04 with the default kernel.

Currently, I cannot boot with any kernel. When I select 2.6.x at grub the pc displays:

 BusyBox v1.18.5 (Ubuntu 1:1.18.5-1ubuntu4.1) built in shell (ash)
 Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands
 
 (initramfs)

[I have unplugged exyernal hardware (usb drive & usb soundcard) but no difference. The other kernels result in a blank screen.]

[philwx]

Ok something odd is happening. I guess I have done something stupid in my install/upgrade process. I am going to install a fresh 12.04.

Thanks for your help

[philwx]

After a fresh install I was able to install the r8101 drivers.

Unfortunately I am still experiencing poor network connectivity. I have started a new thread for this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2096614

[colmeweb]

Hey, I am having a similar problem. I have just done a fresh install of 12.10 on a toshiba satellite c850d duel booting with windows 8. I have no wireless connection. It doesn't show in the top panel or the network settings. I replaced the r8169 driver with r8101 as recommended in this thread. Unfortunately I still don't have any sign of my wireless. Below is the output from what I did.

colin@colin-Satellite-C850D:~$ lspci -v
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8723
	Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 0723
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 4
	I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
	Memory at f0200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff1e
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
	I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
	Memory at f0104000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Memory at f0100000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169

colin@colin-Satellite-C850D:~$ cd ~/Downloads
colin@colin-Satellite-C850D:~/Downloads$ tar xvf r8101-1.023.00.tar.bz2
r8101-1.023.00/
r8101-1.023.00/src/
r8101-1.023.00/src/rtltool.h
r8101-1.023.00/src/rtl_eeprom.h
r8101-1.023.00/src/r8101.h
r8101-1.023.00/src/r8101_n.c
r8101-1.023.00/src/rtl_ethtool.h
r8101-1.023.00/src/rtl_eeprom.c
r8101-1.023.00/src/Makefile_linux24x
r8101-1.023.00/src/Makefile
r8101-1.023.00/src/rtltool.c
r8101-1.023.00/autorun.sh
r8101-1.023.00/readme
r8101-1.023.00/Makefile
colin@colin-Satellite-C850D:~/Downloads$ cd r8101-1.023.00
colin@colin-Satellite-C850D:~/Downloads/r8101-1.023.00$ sudo sh autorun.sh
[sudo] password for colin: 

Check old driver and unload it.
rmmod r8101
Build the module and install
DEPMOD 3.5.0-21-generic
load module r8101
Updating initramfs. Please wait.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-21-generic
Completed.
colin@colin-Satellite-C850D:~/Downloads/r8101-1.023.00$ cd ~/
colin@colin-Satellite-C850D:~$ lspci -nn | grep 0200
06:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)
colin@colin-Satellite-C850D:~$ lsmod | grep r8
r8101                 103388  0 
colin@colin-Satellite-C850D:~$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf | tail -n5
# continues to build and is installable for the few cases where its
# really needed.
blacklist amd76x_edac
blacklist r8169

If anyone out there has an answer please help.
Thanks.

[chili555]

I replaced the r8169 driver with r8101 as recommended in this thread. Unfortunately I still don't have any sign of my wireless.

Of course not. These are wired ethernet drivers. Please post your own new thread and include:

lspci -nn | grep 0280

[colmeweb]

Thanks chili555

[wlj616]

I am trying to get the RTL8101E/RTL8102E wireless in my Toshiba Satellite 855c with Ubuntu 12.10 working but so fat without success.

I did your download of r8101-1.022.00.tar.bz2 and followed the instructions you gave. All seemed OK until I got to your instruction to:

sudo update-initramfs -u && cd ~/Downloads && tar xvf r8101-1.022.00.tar.bz2 && cd r8101-1.022.00 && sudo sh autorun.sh

which produced the output:

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-26-generic
r8101-1.022.00/
r8101-1.022.00/src/
r8101-1.022.00/src/r8101.h
r8101-1.022.00/src/r8101_n.c
r8101-1.022.00/src/rtl_eeprom.c
r8101-1.022.00/src/rtltool.c
r8101-1.022.00/src/rtltool.h
r8101-1.022.00/src/rtl_eeprom.h
r8101-1.022.00/src/Makefile_linux24x
r8101-1.022.00/src/rtl_ethtool.h
r8101-1.022.00/src/Makefile
r8101-1.022.00/readme
r8101-1.022.00/autorun.sh
r8101-1.022.00/Makefile

Check old driver and unload it.
Build the module and install
make: *** /lib/modules/3.5.0-26-generic/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make[1]: *** [clean] Error 2
make: *** [clean] Error 2
walter@walter-SATELLITE-C855-2F3:

Unless someone has got a better idea, I'm thinking I'll try one of those wireless dongles, though these seem for the most part to be a similar pain to get working. If KomodoDave's excellent solution cannot work in this case, is there one of these dongles that can be recommended?
Many thanks.

[chili555]

RTL8101E/RTL8102E is not a wireless device, it's ethernet. Would you please tell us what your wireless really is?

lspci -nn | grep 0280