[SOLVED]Realtek wireless driver

pjk1939 · 2011-08-05 00:41:08

Alright I just recently installed Arch onto my laptop; however, I am struggling getting wireless. I have looked around and can't really find anything.

sudo lspci | grep -i net

<code>
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvA Wireless LAN Controller (rev 10)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
</code>

iwconfig

<code>
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.
</code>

lsmod

<code>
Module Size Used by
ipv6 288690 22
ext2 63714 1
joydev 9959 0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 22784 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 297871 1
uvcvideo 62143 0
i915 648410 2
videodev 78070 1 uvcvideo
hp_wmi 7802 0
snd_hda_intel 22186 0
drm_kms_helper 27529 1 i915
snd_hda_codec 77543 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
sparse_keymap 3128 1 hp_wmi
snd_hwdep 6342 1 snd_hda_codec
rfkill 15498 1 hp_wmi
media 10437 1 videodev
drm 181991 3 i915,drm_kms_helper
snd_pcm 73736 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
evdev 9530 15
v4l2_compat_ioctl32 8364 1 videodev
snd_timer 19488 1 snd_pcm
i2c_algo_bit 5239 1 i915
i2c_i801 8195 0
sg 25621 0
intel_agp 10848 1 i915
snd 57256 7 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
pcspkr 1891 0
i2c_core 20165 6 i915,videodev,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801
video 11300 1 i915
intel_gtt 14359 3 i915,intel_agp
psmouse 54752 0
soundcore 6178 1 snd
r8169 41003 0
snd_page_alloc 7161 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
serio_raw 4366 0
iTCO_wdt 12781 0
intel_ips 11285 0
wmi 8387 1 hp_wmi
battery 10945 0
processor 24328 0
thermal 7903 0
mii 4003 1 r8169
iTCO_vendor_support 1969 1 iTCO_wdt
button 4510 1 i915
ac 3305 0
ext4 368162 2
mbcache 5793 2 ext2,ext4
jbd2 70956 1 ext4
crc16 1337 1 ext4
sr_mod 14663 0
sd_mod 27379 5
cdrom 36393 1 sr_mod
ahci 20905 4
libahci 18925 1 ahci
libata 173061 2 ahci,libahci
ehci_hcd 39359 0
scsi_mod 130020 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
usbcore 142192 3 uvcvideo,ehci_hcd
</code>

ifconfig

<code>
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 78:AC:C0:41:25:5E
inet addr:192.168.0.10 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::7aac:c0ff:fe41:255e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6774 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6059 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6848108 (6.5 Mb) TX bytes:921270 (899.6 Kb)
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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
</code>

I thought that the kernel automatically loaded the driver at start up but I guess not.

Any help would be appricated
Thanks

Last edited by pjk1939 (2011-08-08 14:38:39)

karol · 2011-08-05 00:47:57

When pasting code, please use [ code ] tags https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

like this

It makes the code more readable and more convenient to scroll through.

Try following those instructions as the article mentions the same card.
Have you installed Arch using the official images: http://www.archlinux.org/download/ ? If so and you find it difficult to get the wireless driver running, you may want to use the testing images that provide a more recent kernel http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/2011.06.10/

Last edited by karol (2011-08-05 00:53:36)

pjk1939 · 2011-08-05 00:54:52

Yeah sorry apparently <code> doesn't work lol, Alright I will give it a look. Yes I got it from there

pjk1939 · 2011-08-05 01:47:04

Alright I am trying to install using makpkg -s; however, it says it can't find dependicies. I downloaded the rtl8192se-firmware from AUR and makepkg and kernel26 from pacman. However I still can't resolve dependicies, sorry this is the first time using AUR and I just barely started using Arch. So what exactly do I need to do to fix the dependicies issue?

any help would be great
Thanks

hauzer · 2011-08-05 02:08:44

makepkg -s uses pacman to install the missing dependencies, and since pacman doesn't support AUR, it can't automatically resolve rtl8192se-firmware. You first need to build and install the told package and then build rtl8192se.
Alternatively, you could just download yaourt and run yaourt -S rtl8192se, which is the easy and, in the long run, unbeneficial way. I highly recommend you build everything by yourself to familiraize with the core tools of Arch.

pjk1939 · 2011-08-05 02:44:13

Well i thought i did install the firmware. I downloaded the tarball, extract the contents and ran makepkg. It was successfully installed. I installed kernel26 using pacman and the I ran makepkg and am still having the dependicy problems, i don't need to move any files into the package directory do I?

Also I agree I want to do it the arch way.

pjk1939 · 2011-08-05 03:27:17

Alright got the driver installed, I didnt reliaze I needed to do pacman -U *.xz file.

Thanks for all the help so far, but I could have more lol

ewaller · 2011-08-05 03:42:37

pjk1939:

Welcome to Arch.
Please mark the thread as solved by editing your first post and change the title by adding [SOLVED]

Thanks.

pjk1939 · 2011-08-05 12:38:43

Lol only if it was solved...

Alright I got my driver installed and running. "iwconfig" shows the wlan0 output even after I restart my computer. Also I typed
"ip link set wlan0 up" and "ifconfig wlan0 up" which should tell me that I don't need further firmware because they didn't output anything. So I assumed I was good and I should be able to install Wicd and connect to wireless.

However...

That is not the case. Wicd doesn't see any wireless signals and there should be a lot (I have two in my apartment). I also tried "iwlist wlan0 scan" and all it says is scan complete: with no wireless essids.

Also I tried wpa_supplicant, but I got "dhcpcd wlan0" to just time out.

So is there another step that I happen to forget to do? Maybe it is the wrong driver I installed?

Any help would be great.... Sorry I don't have any command output, I'm at work but I will be heading home for lunch and I can put some up then.

Thanks

pjk1939 · 2011-08-08 13:41:30

Alright I got wireless working...

I ended up quitting for the night and when I turned my computer back on the next day, my wireless was working.

I don't really know the difference but I was using the command

sudo reboot

to restart my computer but I shut it down with

sudo shutdown -h now

I guess there is a difference, but I thank everyone who was able to help me through my questions and advice me in the right direction.

Thanks

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#1 2011-08-05 00:41:08

[SOLVED]Realtek wireless driver

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