[Mageia-dev] rtl8192ce missing firmware files in kernel-firmware-nonfree

Thu Apr 12 22:19:31 CEST 2012

Hi,
+
+I have a realtek wifi card:
+
+~]# lspcidrake -vv|grep -i wifi
+rtl8192ce       : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL8188CE
+802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:10ec device:8176
+subv:10ec subd:9196) (rev: 01)
+
+it uses kernel module rtl8192ce (still dont understand why Mageia is
+calling as "RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter" where is a 8192) and
+untill today it has happened that when writing, multiple times i get
+characters repeated like the keyboard key was stuck.
+
+When i runned Mandriva cooker 2 months ago i didnt had this problem so
+i went to see the differences between both packages
+kernel-firmware-nonfree (from Mageia) and kernel-firmware-extra (from
+Mandriva) and i saw that there are missing firmware files in the
+Mageia package, these files exist upstream, so i dont understand why
+werent them all put available in Mageia...
+
+In conclusion, after adding the missing firmware files into
+/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/ i finally started having a normal behaviour
+when writing (it didnt happen again to have repeated characters like
+keyboard keys were stuck).
+Willl these files be added into the package or will i have continue to
+have attention if files that exist upstream are packaged?
+