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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] rtl8192ce missing firmware files in	kernel-firmware-nonfree</H1>
    <B>Pascal Terjan</B> 
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<PRE>On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 21:19, simple w8 &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">simplew8 at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
&gt;<i> Hi,
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> I have a realtek wifi card:
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> ~]# lspcidrake -vv|grep -i wifi
</I>&gt;<i> rtl8192ce &#160; &#160; &#160; : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL8188CE
</I>&gt;<i> 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:10ec device:8176
</I>&gt;<i> subv:10ec subd:9196) (rev: 01)
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> it uses kernel module rtl8192ce (still dont understand why Mageia is
</I>&gt;<i> calling as &quot;RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter&quot; where is a 8192)
</I>
rtl8192ce is the driver for RTL8192CE and RTL8188SE

It seems pci.ids have same description for all of them:

vendor: 10ec (&quot;Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.&quot;), device: 8176
(&quot;RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter&quot;)
vendor: 10ec (&quot;Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.&quot;), device: 8177
(&quot;RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter&quot;)
vendor: 10ec (&quot;Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.&quot;), device: 8178
(&quot;RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter&quot;)
vendor: 10ec (&quot;Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.&quot;), device: 8191
(&quot;RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter&quot;)

You can request it to be fixed on
<A HREF="http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/10ec/8176">http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/10ec/8176</A> if you know what should be the
name

&gt;<i> untill today it has happened that when writing, multiple times i get
</I>&gt;<i> characters repeated like the keyboard key was stuck.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> When i runned Mandriva cooker 2 months ago i didnt had this problem so
</I>&gt;<i> i went to see the differences between both packages
</I>&gt;<i> kernel-firmware-nonfree (from Mageia) and kernel-firmware-extra (from
</I>&gt;<i> Mandriva) and i saw that there are missing firmware files in the
</I>&gt;<i> Mageia package, these files exist upstream, so i dont understand why
</I>&gt;<i> werent them all put available in Mageia...
</I>
I presume you the files are:

rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin
rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU.bin
rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin

Surprisingly <A HREF="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=rtlwifi;h=97aae7b3721b48e08450c2e29b40d4d480797b5f;hb=HEAD">http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=rtlwifi;h=97aae7b3721b48e08450c2e29b40d4d480797b5f;hb=HEAD</A>
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

&gt;<i> In conclusion, after adding the missing firmware files into
</I>&gt;<i> /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/ i finally started having a normal behaviour
</I>&gt;<i> when writing (it didnt happen again to have repeated characters like
</I>&gt;<i> keyboard keys were stuck).
</I>&gt;<i> Willl these files be added into the package or will i have continue to
</I>&gt;<i> have attention if files that exist upstream are packaged?
</I>
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 &quot;:&quot; after Driver, so the script does not get it.
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