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

Fri Apr 13 00:08:33 CEST 2012

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 22:33, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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.
+>
+
+Hmm and actually this is not the correct rtl driver, the other one is
+correct but still this one should be fixed
+And the script is only to put then in -free, in case it is not known
+it would stay in nonfree, and it is actually in
+kernel-firmware-nonfree
+
+I had forgotten to give  --media nonfree to urpmf
+
+$ urpmf --use-distrib /distrib/bootstrap/distrib/cauldron/i586 --media
+nonfree rtl8192cfw.bin
+kernel-firmware-nonfree:/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
+