2012/4/13 Pascal Terjan <[email protected]>: > 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?
When i said upstream i was refering to realtek, that whats mandriva has in kernel-firmware-extra and thats with those firmware files that i can get things working properly.
