2012/4/12 Pascal Terjan <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 21:19, simple w8 <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a realtek wifi card: >> >> ~]# lspcidrake -vv|grep -i wifi >> rtl8192ce : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL8188CE >> 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:10ec device:8176 >> subv:10ec subd:9196) (rev: 01) >> >> it uses kernel module rtl8192ce (still dont understand why Mageia is >> calling as "RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter" where is a 8192) > > rtl8192ce is the driver for RTL8192CE and RTL8188SE > > It seems pci.ids have same description for all of them: > > vendor: 10ec ("Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."), device: 8176 > ("RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter") > vendor: 10ec ("Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."), device: 8177 > ("RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter") > vendor: 10ec ("Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."), device: 8178 > ("RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter") > vendor: 10ec ("Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."), device: 8191 > ("RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter") > > You can request it to be fixed on > http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/10ec/8176 if you know what should be the > name > >> untill today it has happened that when writing, multiple times i get >> characters repeated like the keyboard key was stuck. >> >> When i runned Mandriva cooker 2 months ago i didnt had this problem so >> i went to see the differences between both packages >> kernel-firmware-nonfree (from Mageia) and kernel-firmware-extra (from >> Mandriva) and i saw that there are missing firmware files in the >> Mageia package, these files exist upstream, so i dont understand why >> werent them all put available in Mageia... > > I presume you the files are: > > rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin > rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU.bin > rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
These are not the only differences, check the output: ~]$ LC_ALL=C diff -U 3 /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi /mageia/kernel-firmware-nonfree/SOURCES/linux-firmware-nonfree-20120219/rtlwifi Only in /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi: rtl8192cfwU.bin Only in /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi: rtl8192cfwU_B.bin Binary files /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin and /mageia/kernel-firmware-nonfree/SOURCES/linux-firmware-nonfree-20120219/rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin differ Only in /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi: rtl8192defw_12.bin Binary files /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192sefw.bin and /mageia/kernel-firmware-nonfree/SOURCES/linux-firmware-nonfree-20120219/rtlwifi/rtl8192sefw.bin differ Only in /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi: rtl8192sefw.old.bin > Surprisingly > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=rtlwifi;h=97aae7b3721b48e08450c2e29b40d4d480797b5f;hb=HEAD > doesn't have the same names for them: > > -rw-r--r-- 13540 rtl8192cfw.bin blob | history | raw > -rw-r--r-- 16014 rtl8192cufw.bin blob | history | raw > -rw-r--r-- 20526 rtl8192defw.bin blob | history | raw > -rw-r--r-- 88856 rtl8192sefw.bin blob | history | raw > -rw-r--r-- 129304 rtl8712u.bin blob | history | raw > >> In conclusion, after adding the missing firmware files into >> /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/ i finally started having a normal behaviour >> when writing (it didnt happen again to have repeated characters like >> keyboard keys were stuck). >> Willl these files be added into the package or will i have continue to >> have attention if files that exist upstream are packaged? > > It seems there is a bug in the file WHENCE > > Driver rtl8192e - Realtek 8192 PCI wireless driver > File: RTL8192E/* > Licence: Redistributable, provided by Realtek in their driver > source download. > > There should be a ":" after Driver, so the script does not get it.
