Realtek 8191SE Drivers

Realtek 8191SE Drivers

Postby ZeroCool096 » Dec 12th, '11, 05:07

Does anyone know how i can get a Realtek 8191SE working? I cant figure it out :(
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Re: Realtek 8191SE Drivers

Postby Max » Dec 12th, '11, 09:45

Did you download the kernel modules from Realtek?
You can get them here: http://218.210.127.131/downloads/downlo ... loads=true
Make sure that you have the kernel-devel packages for your kernel (you probably already do) as well as make and gcc-c++.
Then make sure that you install all of the available Mageia updates.
Then unpack the tar.gz and as su run
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make
make install

Then reboot.
And that should work :)
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Re: Realtek 8191SE Drivers

Postby ZeroCool096 » Dec 13th, '11, 03:32

When i run make i get this

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[root@localhost rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20110401]# make
make ARCH=i386 CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-desktop586-8.mga/build M=/home/zerocool/Downloads/rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20110401/driver/rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20110401  modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-desktop586-8.mga/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2
[root@localhost rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20110401]#


Why?
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Re: Realtek 8191SE Drivers

Postby doktor5000 » Dec 13th, '11, 10:36

That build/ directory normally points to the kernel devel files, but only if you have them installed. Sounds like you need them.

Please show the output of
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rpm -qa | grep kernel
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Re: Realtek 8191SE Drivers

Postby ZeroCool096 » Dec 13th, '11, 14:16

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[root@localhost rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20110401]# rpm -qa |grep kernel
kernel-desktop586-latest-2.6.38.8-8.mga1
kernel-firmware-20110314-2.mga1
kernel-desktop586-2.6.38.8-8.mga-1-1.mga1
kernel-desktop586-2.6.38.7-1.mga-1-1.mga1
kernel-firmware-extra-20110517-1.1.mga1.nonfree
[root@localhost rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20110401]#


There ya go.
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Re: Realtek 8191SE Drivers

Postby Max » Dec 13th, '11, 14:59

I think that you need the package
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kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.38.8-8.mga-1-1.mga1.i586

I'm not on my Mageia machine now, but if I recall correctly that's the one you need.
Search in rpmdrake (Install and remove software) for kernel-devel and pick the most advanced one, the highest version available.
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Re: Realtek 8191SE Drivers

Postby isadora » Dec 13th, '11, 15:35

Or choose for:
kernel-desktop586-devel-latest
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Re: Realtek 8191SE Drivers

Postby ZeroCool096 » Dec 14th, '11, 02:55

Okay, i dont know whats going on but the same thing keeps happening D:

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[root@localhost rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20110401]# ls
autoconf_rtl8712_usb_linux.h*  eeprom/       ioctl/     os_dep/   sta_mgt/
clean*                         efuse/        Kconfig*   os_intf/  wlan0dhcp*
cmd/                           hal/          led/       pwrctrl/  wpa1.conf*
config*                        ifcfg-wlan0*  Makefile*  recv/     xmit/
crypto/                        include/      mlme/      rf/
debug/                         io/           mp/        runwpa*
[root@localhost rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20110401]# make
make ARCH=i386 CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-desktop586-8.mga/build M=/home/zerocool/Downloads/rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20110401/driver/rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20110401  modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-desktop586-8.mga/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2
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Re: Realtek 8191SE Drivers

Postby doktor5000 » Dec 14th, '11, 13:43

Please show again the output of
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rpm -qa | grep kernel
and
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ls -la /lib/modules/*/build
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Re: Realtek 8191SE Drivers

Postby Max » Dec 14th, '11, 15:15

I had that same problem.
I solved it by simply creating the directory
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/lib/modules/2.6.38.8-desktop586-8.mga/build

Also, after that I was having other problems, but allowing for a full system update fixed that.
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Re: Realtek 8191SE Drivers

Postby doktor5000 » Dec 14th, '11, 16:19

Max, that is no solution, if you don't have the appropriate kernel-devel (or kernel-source in some rare cases) package
installed, the compilation will still fail.
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Re: Realtek 8191SE Drivers

Postby Max » Dec 14th, '11, 16:45

That is a solution, it's what worked for me.
I had the proper devel packages, and yet it was looking for a nonexistent directory. The simple solution to that is to create the directory.
I'm not sure why I needed the full updates though. But the facts remain: before the update it didn't work, afterwards it did.
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