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Hello,
I have recently bought the Samsung R580, and have been having trouble getting the wireless to work. The card is the RTL8192E and I have recompiled the kernel to get support for the driver in the staging drivers. This worked fine and I can now see the device under wlan0.
However whenever I issue the command "ifconfig wlan0 up" I get the error:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: operation not permitted
This has got me well and truly stuck. I have tried the drivers under the arch kernel and the most recent mainline kernel. Sorry if i'm just doing something stupid.
Thanks very much for your response, I will be away for a couple of days (until about Sunday, maybe Saturday) so sorry if you don't get an immediate response. Thanks very much for your help!
Last edited by jackerybakery (2010-04-24 22:01:01)
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I had to compile the driver from the AUR. I have the 2.6.0014.0115.2010-1 version. The latest version (the one in the AUR now) didn't work for me with the 2.6.32 Kernel. I haven't tried the latest AUR version since I upgraded to the 2.6.33 Kernel, so it may now work.
Anyway, Until I compiled this driver, the wireless wouldn't work. (And even still I get the message you see -- but it still works fine.)
Matt
"It is very difficult to educate the educated."
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Thanks, so you say you still get the message I see but carrying on with the setup and the wireless works fine?
I will try that driver.
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Did the new driver work for you? If not...
What does the command: "iwconfig" show? Does it show you a wireless interface wlan0 or something like it?
If so, try: "sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid any" and then: "sudo dhcpcd -k wlan0" and then: "sudo dhcpcd -n wlan0". Disable encryption on your router temporarily to make things simpler.
Otherwise... try ndiswrapper with win32 drivers.
Last edited by Daemonjax (2010-04-16 16:00:46)
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Thanks very much for your advice, just got back from my trip.
I will try these out tonight. Also I found some firmware for it, am wondering if it might be that. Where would I put the boot.img for my driver to find it?
Thanks.
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SIOCSIFFLAGS: operation not permitted
That's because no firmware is loaded onto the device, but you have it now so all should be good.
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jackerybakery wrote:SIOCSIFFLAGS: operation not permitted
That's because no firmware is loaded onto the device, but you have it now so all should be good.
Hmm, I got the firmware as boot.img, I put that in the directory /lib/firmware/rtl8192e/
Unfortunately I still got the same error, did I put it in the wrong place?
Or might it be the wrong firmware?
Thanks
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Hello,
Problem solved wahoo!
It was a firmware problem as Meythi said, thanks for everyone's help.
Just to clarify for anyone else who may have problems, after building support for the staging driver in the kernel.
I then had to get the firmware from here, and move all its contents to "/lib/firmware/RTL8192E/" .
Then perform a restart and it should work!
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Hello,
I have a problem with this wireless device. I installed the device with AUR and i installed/configured Networkmanager with the wiki : [wiki]http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager[/wiki].
The problem is that i don't see my network with network-manager-applet. I see other network but not mine. So i add manually my network in network-manager-applet but even if "automatic connection" is enabled, my wifi doesn't work.
I don't understand. The firmware on AUR works correctly?
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