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

Thu Apr 12 23:33:27 CEST 2012

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 21:19, simple w8 <simplew8 at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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)
+
+rtl8192ce is the driver for RTL8192CE and RTL8188SE
+
+It seems pci.ids have same description for all of them:
+
+vendor: 10ec ("Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."), device: 8176
+("RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter")
+vendor: 10ec ("Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."), device: 8177
+("RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter")
+vendor: 10ec ("Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."), device: 8178
+("RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter")
+vendor: 10ec ("Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."), device: 8191
+("RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter")
+
+You can request it to be fixed on
+http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/10ec/8176 if you know what should be the
+name
+
+> 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...
+
+I presume you the files are:
+
+rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin
+rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU.bin
+rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
+
+Surprisingly http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=rtlwifi;h=97aae7b3721b48e08450c2e29b40d4d480797b5f;hb=HEAD
+doesn't have the same names for them:
+
+-rw-r--r--	13540	rtl8192cfw.bin	blob | history | raw
+-rw-r--r--	16014	rtl8192cufw.bin	blob | history | raw
+-rw-r--r--	20526	rtl8192defw.bin	blob | history | raw
+-rw-r--r--	88856	rtl8192sefw.bin	blob | history | raw
+-rw-r--r--	129304	rtl8712u.bin	blob | history | raw
+
+> 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?
+
+It seems there is a bug in the file WHENCE
+
+Driver rtl8192e - Realtek 8192 PCI wireless driver
+File: RTL8192E/*
+Licence: Redistributable, provided by Realtek in their driver
+         source download.
+
+There should be a ":" after Driver, so the script does not get it.
+