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slowpoke1584

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Realtek LtRTL8190 802.11n Wireless LAN- device not created/working

Realtek wireless pci card not working/device not created.

 dmesg | grep firmware 

gives no output

ip link 

does not show a wireless device at all

 lspci -v

gives this output

 05:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8190 802.11n Wireless LAN
	Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8190 802.11n Wireless LAN
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
	I/O ports at c000 [disabled] [size=256]
	Memory at f6800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=4K]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

I followed this to use the ndiswrapper:

I did find users using the NDISWrapper and the windows XP driver from Realtek.
I have used this tutorial here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...eisty_No-Fluff

But, of course, I've changed the commands that depended on the driver. The one I used was exactly the one that came with the product, more precisely the WinXP x86 driver named "rtl8190p.sys" and "net8190.inf".

The commands used to install the device drivers with the xp .inf and .sys files for (ENLWI-NX2):

Step 1:- Install NDISWrapper and Blacklist Native Driver
echo -e 'blacklist rtl8190\nblacklist wl' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
mkdir ~/rtl8190; cd ~/rtl8190

Step 2: Copy "rtl8190p.sys" and "net8190.inf" to ~/rtl8190

Step 3: Configure NDISWrapper (and WPA Supplicant)
sudo ndiswrapper -i net8190.inf
ndiswrapper -l
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
sudo cp /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces.orig
echo -e 'auto lo\niface lo inet loopback\n' | sudo tee /etc/network/interfaces
sudo ndiswrapper -m
echo 'ndiswrapper' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
echo 'ENABLED=0' | sudo tee -a /etc/default/wpasupplicant

When I determined it still wasn't working I input this into the terminal and got this output:

[root@grim net819xp]# ndiswrapper -i net819xp.inf
driver net819xp is already installed
[root@grim net819xp]# ndiswrapper -l
net819xp : driver installed
	device (10EC:8190) present
[root@grim net819xp]# gedit /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.conf

(gedit:2219): Gtk-WARNING **: Calling Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

(gedit:2219): Gtk-WARNING **: Calling Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
[root@grim net819xp]# clear

[root@grim net819xp]# modprobe ndiswrapper
libkmod: kmod_config_parse: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.conf line 2: ignoring bad line starting with 'ndiswrapper'
libkmod: kmod_config_parse: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.conf line 3: ignoring bad line starting with 'depmod'

I did notice the i/o port was disabled and am reading up on that at this time.

EDIT: I don't have ndiswrapper-utils installed. I couldn't find it anywhere and over the course of several hours somehow assumed it was in the ndiswrapper AUR package.

Last edited by slowpoke1584 (2014-02-08 04:15:24)

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