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#1 2011-06-08 21:32:48

jgreen1tc
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From: St. Louis
Registered: 2011-05-16
Posts: 251

[SOLVED] Wireless problem with rtl8192s

I didn't know where to put this thread, but since I'm a newbie, this seems as good as anywhere.

To start off with, I'll describe my situation. I can connect to the internet at my house through a wired connection. wireless doesn't work. When I go to my dads house, not even being wired to the router works. Pretty weird. So I've been tinkering with things, after I got back to my house after a week or so, and got back to being able to at least being wired. I know my stuff isnt set up to work with wireless yet, but I now want to connect wirelessly. Hopefully I can help some of you guys help me.

My lspci:

[jgreen1tc@Archlab ~]$ lspci | grep -i net
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller (rev 10)

My ifconfig:

[jgreen1tc@Archlab ~]$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:6C:3C:47:0E  
          inet addr:192.168.1.71  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::226:6cff:fe3c:470e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:352794 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:247162 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:409143599 (390.1 Mb)  TX bytes:22389497 (21.3 Mb)
          Interrupt:41 Base address:0xe000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:284 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:284 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:16960 (16.5 Kb)  TX bytes:16960 (16.5 Kb)

My iwconfig:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

No wlan0. I guess that makes sense. So I figure I need this driver according to my lspci, correct? If not, then the rest of this post is useless.

Following the wiki I get stuck here:

[jgreen1tc@Archlab ~]$ sudo tar -xzOf rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009.tar.gz rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/firmware/RTL8192SE/rtl8192sfw.bin > /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin
bash: /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin: Permission denied

If someone can explain what happened there, I'd be grateful. Hopefully just an error copy/pasting? I tried something else however. Not sure if it was smart. I untarred the file, cd to the directory, and:

[jgreen1tc@Archlab rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009]$ make
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.38-ARCH'
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_core.o
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_core.c: In function ‘rtl819xE_tx_cmd’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_core.c:2648:16: warning: variable ‘mapping’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_core.c: In function ‘rtl8192_tx’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_core.c:2682:28: warning: variable ‘broad_addr’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_core.c:2681:16: warning: variable ‘mapping’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_core.c:2680:22: warning: variable ‘stype’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_core.c: In function ‘rtl8192_alloc_rx_desc_ring’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_core.c:2778:17: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘pci_map_single’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
include/asm-generic/pci-dma-compat.h:30:1: note: expected ‘void *’ but argument is of type ‘sk_buff_data_t’
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_core.c: In function ‘rtl8192_process_phyinfo’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_core.c:3248:15: warning: variable ‘frag’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_core.c: In function ‘rtl8192_rx’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_core.c:4436:4: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘pci_map_single’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
include/asm-generic/pci-dma-compat.h:30:1: note: expected ‘void *’ but argument is of type ‘sk_buff_data_t’
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_core.c: In function ‘UpdateHalRAMask8192SE’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_core.c:8153:3: warning: case value ‘6’ not in enumerated type ‘WIRELESS_MODE’ [-Wswitch]
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl8192se.o
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl8192se.c: In function ‘HwConfigureRTL8192SE’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl8192se.c:1344:6: warning: variable ‘regRATR’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl8192se.c: In function ‘rtl8192se_tx_fill_desc’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl8192se.c:1915:12: warning: variable ‘stype’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_eeprom.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_wx.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_cam.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_pm.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_ps.o
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_ps.c: In function ‘PlatformSwitchClkReq’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_ps.c:539:5: warning: variable ‘Buffer’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_debug.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/rtl_ethtool.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8190_rtl8256.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192S_Efuse.o
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192S_Efuse.c: In function ‘efuse_PgPacketWrite’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192S_Efuse.c:975:42: warning: variable ‘bResult’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192S_Efuse.c: In function ‘efuse_GetCurrentSize’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192S_Efuse.c:1340:5: warning: variable ‘hoffset’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192S_phy.o
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192S_phy.c: In function ‘PHY_SetBWModeCallback8192S’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192S_phy.c:2112:22: warning: variable ‘regRRSR_RSC’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192S_firmware.o
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192S_firmware.c: In function ‘FirmwareDownload92S’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192S_firmware.c:350:11: warning: variable ‘file_length’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192E_dm.o
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192E_dm.c: In function ‘dm_CtrlInitGainAPByFalseAlarm’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192E_dm.c:2529:13: warning: variable ‘binitialized’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192S_rtl6052.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192S_hwimg.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192S_led.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192S_mp.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.o
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c: In function ‘ieee80211_rx_rsl’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c:983:6: warning: variable ‘payload’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.o
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c: In function ‘ieee80211_sta_send_associnfo’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:2350:3: warning: format ‘%d’ expects argument of type ‘int’, but argument 3 has type ‘size_t’ [-Wformat]
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:2350:3: warning: format ‘%d’ expects argument of type ‘int’, but argument 4 has type ‘size_t’ [-Wformat]
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.o
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.c: In function ‘ieee80211_wx_set_gen_ie_rsl’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.c:1292:4: warning: format ‘%d’ expects argument of type ‘int’, but argument 2 has type ‘size_t’ [-Wformat]
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.c:1308:4: warning: format ‘%d’ expects argument of type ‘int’, but argument 2 has type ‘size_t’ [-Wformat]
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_module.o
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c: In function ‘store_debug_level’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c:429:22: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default]
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac_wx.o
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac_wx.c: In function ‘ieee80211_wx_sync_scan_wq’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac_wx.c:349:13: warning: variable ‘count’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/rtl819x_HTProc.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/rtl819x_TSProc.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/rtl819x_BAProc.o
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/rtl819x_BAProc.c: In function ‘ieee80211_rx_ADDBAReq’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/rtl819x_BAProc.c:284:3: warning: format ‘%d’ expects argument of type ‘int’, but argument 3 has type ‘long unsigned int’ [-Wformat]
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/rtl819x_BAProc.c: In function ‘ieee80211_rx_ADDBARsp’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/rtl819x_BAProc.c:372:3: warning: format ‘%d’ expects argument of type ‘int’, but argument 3 has type ‘long unsigned int’ [-Wformat]
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/rtl819x_BAProc.c: In function ‘ieee80211_rx_DELBA’:
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/rtl819x_BAProc.c:481:3: warning: format ‘%d’ expects argument of type ‘int’, but argument 3 has type ‘long unsigned int’ [-Wformat]
/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/rtl819x_BAProc.c:476:9: warning: variable ‘pReasonCode’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/dot11d.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_ccmp.o
  CC [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/../../ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.o
  LD [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192se_pci.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
  CC      /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192se_pci.mod.o
  LD [M]  /home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192/r8192se_pci.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.38-ARCH'

Ok. Being a newbie, I'm not sure what all that means. But I continued on:

[jgreen1tc@Archlab rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009]$ make install
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.38-ARCH'
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.38-ARCH'
cp: cannot create regular file `/etc/acpi/events/': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1

Ok so it looked like I needed the directory /etc/acpi/events? I made it, tried again, got permission denied. Oh ok, tried with sudo:

[jgreen1tc@Archlab rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009]$ sudo make install
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.38-ARCH'
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.38-ARCH'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.38-ARCH/build M= CC=gcc modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.38-ARCH'
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/docproc
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
  HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.38-ARCH'
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `missing-syscalls'.  Stop.
make[2]: *** [prepare0] Error 2
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jgreen1tc/Build/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/HAL/rtl8192'
make: *** [install] Error 2

Gah! I'm such a newb. I'm starting to understand the way Arch is working and beginning to feel more comfortable with the terminal. But as far as this goes, I have no idea.

After I get this, I *think* I can fiddle with netcfg until I finally get it working so hopefully this is the last really confusing step to me. I think the momentum I get from fixing everything will help.

OH! And does anyone know why I cant connect to my dads router, even when wired when wired connections work at my house? I cant even begin to figure out why. As I said, this is a little confusing for me.

Thanks for reading. Hopefully I gave enough information for someone to help me.

PS: How far did I get from fixing my problem?

Last edited by jgreen1tc (2011-06-09 00:43:22)

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#2 2011-06-08 21:55:41

brando56894
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From: NYC
Registered: 2008-08-03
Posts: 681

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless problem with rtl8192s

Wireless has been a pain in the butt for me too on my Asus eeepc 1005HA, I believe I have the r8169 adapter by Realtek. For some reason my wifi will connect to my home AP automatically and sometimes it won't, other times it disconnects after a few minutes. Sometimes I can't see APs at all when I know there's one around because other people are connected to it. The most (continued) success I've had is doing everything manually (bringing up the interface, associating with an AP, and then finally grabbing an IP address from the DHCP server).

Try following this article from the wiki and see if it will work manually with your Dad's AP.

Edit: also for your "permission denied' error where you were trying to redirect the tar to another file you need to be root for it to work for some reason, using sudo will still give you a permission denied error. I've had that problem with various things over the years and found thats an easy solution.

Last edited by brando56894 (2011-06-08 21:57:29)

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#3 2011-06-08 22:07:37

jgreen1tc
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From: St. Louis
Registered: 2011-05-16
Posts: 251

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless problem with rtl8192s

brando56894 wrote:

Wireless has been a pain in the butt for me too on my Asus eeepc 1005HA, I believe I have the r8169 adapter by Realtek. For some reason my wifi will connect to my home AP automatically and sometimes it won't, other times it disconnects after a few minutes. Sometimes I can't see APs at all when I know there's one around because other people are connected to it. The most (continued) success I've had is doing everything manually (bringing up the interface, associating with an AP, and then finally grabbing an IP address from the DHCP server).

Try following this article from the wiki and see if it will work manually with your Dad's AP.

I'm not getting a wlan0 device on my ifconfig so I'm still back to configuring the driver/firmware.

Edit: also for your "permission denied' error where you were trying to redirect the tar to another file you need to be root for it to work for some reason, using sudo will still give you a permission denied error. I've had that problem with various things over the years and found thats an easy solution.

I'll try that in a second and post the results here afterwards.

Last edited by jgreen1tc (2011-06-09 01:56:44)

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#4 2011-06-08 22:41:54

eldragon
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From: Buenos Aires
Registered: 2008-11-18
Posts: 1,029

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless problem with rtl8192s

why go through all this headache if there is an aur package that works....

im using it at work. wink

Last edited by eldragon (2011-06-08 22:42:16)

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#5 2011-06-08 23:41:25

jgreen1tc
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From: St. Louis
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Posts: 251

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless problem with rtl8192s

eldragon wrote:

why go through all this headache if there is an aur package that works....

im using it at work. wink

Ok cool. I feel like I'm getting on the right track now. But I did hit a snag following the AUR wiki:

[jgreen1tc@Archlab ~]$ cd ~/builds
[jgreen1tc@Archlab builds]$ tar -xvzf rtl8192se.tar.gz
rtl8192se/
rtl8192se/Changelog
rtl8192se/PKGBUILD
rtl8192se/rtl8192se.install
[jgreen1tc@Archlab builds]$ cd rtl8192se
[jgreen1tc@Archlab rtl8192se]$ makepkg -s
==> Making package: rtl8192se 2.6.0019.1207.2010-4 (Wed Jun  8 18:36:17 CDT 2011)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Installing missing dependencies...
Password: 
error: target not found: rtl8192se-firmware=2.6.0019.1207.2010
==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies.

Should I make without handling dependencies?

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#6 2011-06-08 23:47:38

jasonwryan
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Re: [SOLVED] Wireless problem with rtl8192s

Install the dependency first, and then proceed with the build above.


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#7 2011-06-08 23:49:26

jgreen1tc
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Re: [SOLVED] Wireless problem with rtl8192s

jasonwryan wrote:

Install the dependency first, and then proceed with the build above.

Oh. Duh.

Edit:

Actually, same error? I'm real confused now.

[jgreen1tc@Archlab rtl8192se-firmware]$ makepkg -s
==> Making package: rtl8192se-firmware 2.6.0019.1207.2010-1 (Wed Jun  8 18:51:49 CDT 2011)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Downloading rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz...
--2011-06-08 18:51:49--  http://www.nd.edu/~pbui/scratch/aur/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz
Resolving www.nd.edu... 129.74.12.151
Connecting to www.nd.edu|129.74.12.151|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2023545 (1.9M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: “rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz.part”

100%[============================>] 2,023,545   36.3K/s   in 64s     

2011-06-08 18:52:53 (31.1 KB/s) - “rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz.part” saved [2023545/2023545]

==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
  -> Extracting rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
==> Tidying install...
  -> Purging other files...
  -> Compressing man and info pages...
  -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries...
==> Creating package...
  -> Generating .PKGINFO file...
  -> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: rtl8192se-firmware 2.6.0019.1207.2010-1 (Wed Jun  8 18:52:54 CDT 2011)

Ok that was good. But then:

[jgreen1tc@Archlab rtl8192se]$ makepkg -s
==> Making package: rtl8192se 2.6.0019.1207.2010-4 (Wed Jun  8 18:53:17 CDT 2011)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Installing missing dependencies...
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error: target not found: rtl8192se-firmware=2.6.0019.1207.2010
==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies.

I dont understand how it can say "Finished making: rtl8192se-firmware 2.6.0019.1207.2010-1 (Wed Jun  8 18:52:54 CDT 2011)" and then turn around and say "error: target not found: rtl8192se-firmware=2.6.0019.1207.2010"

Wait ok as I typed that, I noticed the extra "-1" that was at the end of the dependecy I made. Why was that added?

Edit 2: SORRY forgot to pacman -U the firmware. making as we speak.

Last edited by jgreen1tc (2011-06-09 00:34:15)

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#8 2011-06-09 00:36:35

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Re: [SOLVED] Wireless problem with rtl8192s

Just finished making the driver. Any and all problems I have now have nothing to do with the rtl8192s driver. Marking topic as solved. Thanks everyone for your help.

Edit PS: Plus I learned how to use aur! Thanks again!

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