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

Fri Apr 13 18:36:41 CEST 2012

2012/4/13 Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com>:
+> 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?
+
+When i said upstream i was refering to realtek, that whats mandriva
+has in kernel-firmware-extra and thats with those firmware files that
+i can get things working properly.
+