No wireless support for RTL8192EE
I recently bought a Lenovo Thinkpad T440P. The wireless driver did work out of the box. It was not even recognized by the system. A quick search revealed I am not the only one with the issue. I later learned that the Wireless adapter requires a driver called RTL8192EE, which is not supported by Linux. I then downloaded some driver file off the net, which I can't find now, and the network adapter worked. But it was too slow to be useful, and it disconnected far too often. After a while, I stumbled across this post: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1239578 The thing that caught my eye is this particular comment: I was unable to get the latest Realtek drivers into a form for submission to the kernel in time to make kernel 3.17. As a result, I created a git repo at http://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new.git. I have no idea if it will work for youm but it is the latest code,' Source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1239578/comments/156 So, I cloned the repo, compiled and installed. Now, network-manager does detect the adapter, but it says device not managed. If i run `iwconfig` in a terminal, the device appears as managed. The device is not detected by `ifconfig`. Here's where the mystery gets really interesting: If I run aircrack-ng and use that adapter, it works! Packet injection works perfectly, packet sniffing is very unreliable, I'd say 95% of the packets are lost. Any idea how to resolve this? I want it to work normally. Thanks in advance. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 19:01:59 +0300 softwatt softw...@gmx.com wrote: So, I cloned the repo, compiled and installed. Now, network-manager does detect the adapter, but it says device not managed. If i run `iwconfig` in a terminal, the device appears as managed. The device is not detected by `ifconfig`. By default, NM doesn't manage any I/F that is cited into /etc/network/interfaces; so you must either comment lines in this file or enable the management of these I/F into NM conf file. Here's where the mystery gets really interesting: If I run aircrack-ng and use that adapter, it works! Packet injection works perfectly, packet sniffing is very unreliable, I'd say 95% of the packets are lost. Naughty pirate, naughty ;-p) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140917180913.5c898f81@msi.defcon1
Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE
On 09/17/2014 07:09 PM, B wrote: By default, NM doesn't manage any I/F that is cited into /etc/network/interfaces; so you must either comment lines in this file or enable the management of these I/F into NM conf file. Thanks! It's working surprisingly well. I will test it before considering this solved though. Naughty pirate, naughty ;-p) I dislike your prejudice. Not all those who possess aircrack-ng are naughty pirates. Some are just pirates ;-p) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE
On Wed 17 Sep 2014 at 19:01:59 +0300, softwatt wrote: I recently bought a Lenovo Thinkpad T440P. The wireless driver did work out of the box. It was not even recognized by the system. A quick search revealed I am not the only one with the issue. I later learned that the Wireless adapter requires a driver called RTL8192EE, which is not supported by Linux. [Snip] Any idea how to resolve this? I want it to work normally. Resolve the situation of not having any functional WiFi? Purchase a USB device which does work with Debian. Normal working can then be easily achieved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/17092014173851.1c7b532c5...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE
On 09/17/2014 07:43 PM, Brian wrote: Resolve the situation of not having any functional WiFi? Purchase a USB device which does work with Debian. Normal working can then be easily achieved. I already do that. But some things have the so-called hacking value. I want to fix this for the sake of fixing this. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE
On Wed 17 Sep 2014 at 19:46:21 +0300, softwatt wrote: On 09/17/2014 07:43 PM, Brian wrote: Resolve the situation of not having any functional WiFi? Purchase a USB device which does work with Debian. Normal working can then be easily achieved. I already do that. But some things have the so-called hacking value. I want to fix this for the sake of fixing this. Understandable. I'm all for the easy life when it comes to hardware. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/17092014175447.2b1eb3e4c...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE
That's also understandable, hardware is a pain in the neck. :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:51:02 +0300 softwatt softw...@gmx.com wrote: That's also understandable, hardware is a pain in the neck. :) That's a bit overestimated, I remember those days when not adding the right switche(s) to a module left the HW as good as dead (especially TV cards, it was a real PITA: tuner type, audio type, etc); this is quite over now. Although, it might come back through the return of obscurantism like systemd… (naaa, (almost) kidding). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140917212211.5bce822f@msi.defcon1
Re: Wireless support
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:43:59PM -0400, Jacob Tennant wrote: Please describe what you are meaning about the b43/ssb modules or wl option as I don't understand what you are meaning. I am running Debian without Gnome, KDE, etc... Oops! :) The b43 module depends on the ssb module, that's why I mention them together. These are installed by default. You only need the firmware to activate it. I don't know now, but they were automatically loaded on boot. Packages broadcom-sta* provide the module wl. The desktop environment doesn't matter. http://wiki.debian.org/wl http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM4312 Regards -- Omar Campagne Polaino vim-doc-es: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/vim-doc-es -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100315102626.gc4...@gmail.com
Wireless support
I have not used Debian in over 10 years so please excuse my newbie type qestions... Does Debian have driver support for the Braodcom 4311 chips in laptops wireless cards? I am tryng to setup a server type system for amateur radio using Xastir and tired of fighting with all of the GUI stuff, just need a bare-bone linux system as this is all that this computer is ever going to do till it dies. Thank you, Jacob Tennant - K8JWT
Re: Wireless support
On 2010-03-14 18:04, Jacob Tennant wrote: I have not used Debian in over 10 years so please excuse my newbie type qestions... Does Debian have driver support for the Braodcom 4311 chips in laptops wireless cards? According to Google (linux broadcom 4311), the relevant driver was added to the kernel as of v2.6.17-rc2. I am tryng to setup a server type system for amateur radio using Xastir and tired of fighting with all of the GUI stuff, just need a bare-bone linux system as this is all that this computer is ever going to do till it dies. What fighting? Network configuration? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms. Mike Ditka -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b9d713e.4020...@cox.net
Re: Wireless support
Does Debian have driver support for the Braodcom 4311 chips in laptops wireless cards? I own a laptop sold with a 4311 (yet lspci gives 4312). Anyway, you have the b43/ssb modules option with firmware, or the wl option, available with the packages broadcom-sta-common and broadcom-sta-source. You have to build the packages with the second option. Plus, it's less open, as it has some binary pieces. It's the same driver than the one offerred officialy. I have to add that I have far better performance with the wl module. -- Omar Campagne Polaino -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100315004931.gb13...@gmail.com
Re: Wireless support
Please describe what you are meaning about the b43/ssb modules or wl option as I don't understand what you are meaning. I am running Debian without Gnome, KDE, etc... Jacob Tennant On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Omar Campagne ocampa...@gmail.com wrote: Does Debian have driver support for the Braodcom 4311 chips in laptops wireless cards? I own a laptop sold with a 4311 (yet lspci gives 4312). Anyway, you have the b43/ssb modules option with firmware, or the wl option, available with the packages broadcom-sta-common and broadcom-sta-source. You have to build the packages with the second option. Plus, it's less open, as it has some binary pieces. It's the same driver than the one offerred officialy. I have to add that I have far better performance with the wl module. -- Omar Campagne Polaino -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100315004931.gb13...@gmail.com
Re: Wireless support
I give up, I HAVE TO HAVE A DESKTOP!!! Installing KDE as we speak... On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Jacob Tennant k8jwtenn...@gmail.comwrote: Please describe what you are meaning about the b43/ssb modules or wl option as I don't understand what you are meaning. I am running Debian without Gnome, KDE, etc... Jacob Tennant On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Omar Campagne ocampa...@gmail.comwrote: Does Debian have driver support for the Braodcom 4311 chips in laptops wireless cards? I own a laptop sold with a 4311 (yet lspci gives 4312). Anyway, you have the b43/ssb modules option with firmware, or the wl option, available with the packages broadcom-sta-common and broadcom-sta-source. You have to build the packages with the second option. Plus, it's less open, as it has some binary pieces. It's the same driver than the one offerred officialy. I have to add that I have far better performance with the wl module. -- Omar Campagne Polaino -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100315004931.gb13...@gmail.com
Re: Wireless support
[Please don't top post.] On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:43:59 -0400 Jacob Tennant k8jwtenn...@gmail.com wrote: Please describe what you are meaning about the b43/ssb modules or wl option as I don't understand what you are meaning. I am running Debian without Gnome, KDE, etc... http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100314215730.b30b150f.cele...@gmail.com
Re: NetworkManager and XFCE for wireless support
Don't top post and keep replies to the list. I've reorganized your post. On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:19:51AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:13:35PM -0800, Eduardo B. V. Pereira wrote: I would like to know if there is any NetworkManager frontend to the XFCE environment. Or if there is any software that I could use instead. Just use the standard debian networking setup. What did you want NetworkManager to do? I need him to manage my wireless connections. I've installed the Wi-fi Radar, but it doesn't support some kinds of encryption. I also checked out the WiCD, but some of its dependencies where outside of packages for the stable realease and didn't know if there could be any problem in installing those. I've never dealt with wireless. However, how could a package from stable have dependancies outside of stable? If you mix and match you get a mess unless you really know what you're doing. In that case, you would probably be running Sid anyway. Hopefully, someone who knows about wireless can help. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Built-In Wireless support
I tried the new Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop and it was able to detect and install the Linksys Realtek 8180 drivers for my wireless b card right off the bat. Despite a well polished Gnome Desktop, I still preferred Debian and decided to use Debian Etch since the release is only a few months away (I hope). Obviously, any proprietary drivers are not included with Debian, but I am curious as to how Ubuntu was able to do that? I use ndiswrapper to install the drivers I download from Realtek's website for my wireless card in Debian, but is there a way to create a custom kernel with support/modules for most of the wireless cards out there, even if it non-free? I'm pretty clueless when it comes to the Linux kernel side of GNU/Linux so please correct me if I don't know what I'm talking about. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Built-In Wireless support
On Thursday August 17, 2006 10:14 am, Anthony Simonelli wrote: I tried the new Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop and it was able to detect and install the Linksys Realtek 8180 drivers for my wireless b card right off the bat. Despite a well polished Gnome Desktop, I still preferred Debian and decided to use Debian Etch since the release is only a few months away (I hope). Obviously, any proprietary drivers are not included with Debian, but I am curious as to how Ubuntu was able to do that? I use ndiswrapper to install the drivers I download from Realtek's website for my wireless card in Debian, but is there a way to create a custom kernel with support/modules for most of the wireless cards out there, even if it non-free? I'm pretty clueless when it comes to the Linux kernel side of GNU/Linux so please correct me if I don't know what I'm talking about. It's possible that Ubuntu has better hardware detection. I installed Debian Etch on a laptop and it did not detect some hardware, including the winmodem and Ralink RT2500 wireless interface. Then I tried Xandros with much the same result. Only Linspire and Freespire detected all the hardware and I did not have to fuss with any kernel modules. 8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Built-In Wireless support
but the winmodem driver is not open source software so it's against to the debian policyChristos
Re: Built-In Wireless support
That's what I'm trying to figure out. Are the closed-source drivers for these devices compiled into Ubuntu or FreeSpire's kernels? If so, how is it done? How does Ubuntu get away with using them in their Kernel and yet remain free without any EULA? I know that (Lin)FreeSpire require you to accept an EULA but Ubuntu does not? --- Margiolas Christos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but the winmodem driver is not open source software so it's against to the debian policy Christos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Built-In Wireless support
On Thursday 17 August 2006 20:59, Anthony Simonelli wrote: That's what I'm trying to figure out. Are the closed-source drivers for these devices compiled into Ubuntu or FreeSpire's kernels? If so, how is it done? How does Ubuntu get away with using them in their Kernel and yet remain free without any EULA? I know that (Lin)FreeSpire require you to accept an EULA but Ubuntu does not? There is a GPL'd driver for the Ralink RT2400 and RT2500 but I am not certain Linspire or Freespire use that driver. I think the difference between distributions is the hardware detection. http://sourceforge.net/projects/rt2400 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Built-In Wireless support
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 22:40 +0300, Margiolas Christos wrote: but the winmodem driver is not open source software so it's against to the debian policy Christos Ubuntu is also particularly pedantic in this regard. You may be able to use the Ubuntu kernel packages on the debian system, if you take care in realising that the Ubuntu kernels use udev (While your debian system might not) - Realise also that this is an entirely unsupported configuration! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
