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

Fri Apr 13 10:40:11 CEST 2012

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 23:50, simple w8 <simplew8 at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 2012/4/12 Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com>:
+>> 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
+>
+> These are not the only differences, check the output:
+>
+> ~]$ LC_ALL=C diff -U 3
+> /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi
+> /mageia/kernel-firmware-nonfree/SOURCES/linux-firmware-nonfree-20120219/rtlwifi
+> Only in /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi:
+> rtl8192cfwU.bin
+> Only in /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi:
+> rtl8192cfwU_B.bin
+> Binary files /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin
+> and /mageia/kernel-firmware-nonfree/SOURCES/linux-firmware-nonfree-20120219/rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin
+> differ
+> Only in /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi:
+> rtl8192defw_12.bin
+> Binary files /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192sefw.bin
+> and /mageia/kernel-firmware-nonfree/SOURCES/linux-firmware-nonfree-20120219/rtlwifi/rtl8192sefw.bin
+> differ
+> Only in /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi:
+> rtl8192sefw.old.bin
+
+Well I don't know where they are coming from, not from upstream.
+Maybe from the driver provided on realtek site?
+