On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 23:50, simple w8 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Well I don't know where they are coming from, not from upstream. Maybe from the driver provided on realtek site?
