[SOLVED] Wireless won't work on Toshiba laptop

[Max]

I just got a new Toshiba laptop L745-S4210.
According to Windows it has a Realtek RTL 8188CE wireless card. According to lspci it has:

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02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8176 (rev 01)

When I open draknetcenter the wireless adapter is recognized, however no matter how many times i hit Refresh it will not display any networks. (And there is a network, I'm typing this on the other laptop connected to a network).
Trying to manually set up the connection through the MCC fails as well.
ifconig -a yields:

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wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr *REDACTED*
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


Help?

[rolltide101x]

ftp://WebUser:AxPL9s3k@208.70.202.219/c ... 011.tar.gz Linux driver for kernel 2.6.24 (and later)

ftp://WebUser:AxPL9s3k@208.70.202.219/c ... 011.tar.gz Linux driver for kernel 2.6.23 (and earlier)

where links are from http://218.210.127.131/downloads/downlo ... #RTL8188CE

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urpmi dkms fakeroot make gcc-c++
cd Downloads
unzip rtl8192ce_linux_2.6.0006.0321.2011.tar.gz
cd rtl8192ce_linux_2.6.0006.0321.2011
make
make install

reboot

[rolltide101x]

extra help

http://blog.alifazman.com/2011/03/25/in ... tl-8188ce/

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=106736

[rolltide101x]

Sorry

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unzip

is supposed to be

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tar -zxvf

Sorry for the typo

[Max]

Hmm....
I'd tried something like this and it didn't work. The compilation errors were too complicated.
I guess it might be because I hadn't thought to install dkms and fakeroot.
I'll try it again, thanks.

[rolltide101x]

Linux driver for kernel 2.6.24 (and later) http://ubuntuone.com/340fZSwDmUPkfgyfh4LKFT

Linux driver for kernel 2.6.23 (and earlier) http://ubuntuone.com/5QbT4N6y7CiUyXasPVffSL

The direct links originally gave you stopped working so I go you another link. The "make" command worked fine on my computer so everything should work for you. Im not gonna do "make install" since I dont have the card and couldnt test it anyway. After the "make install" command do the
"modprobe -v mac80211" command (I think that would be it in your case anyway. Anyone else know if thats right?
then the
"depmod -a" command

[Max]

[root@localhost rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0004.0816.2011]# make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.38.7-desktop-1.mga/build M=/home/max/Downloads/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0004.0816.2011 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.38.7-desktop-1.mga/build'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.38.7-desktop-1.mga/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

That directory /lib/modules/2.6.38.7-desktop-1.mga/build did not exist. I had created it in a previous attempt of making this, since that was a compilation error, that the directory did not exist.
Now what?

[doktor5000]

You need the kernel-devel package according to the kernel which you're running currently.

[Max]

I already have the kernel-devel package for the kernel I am using. :\

[Max]

After I did a full update (including kernel) I tried the make again and it worked.
make install and a reboot later and my wifi is now working.
Thanks everybody.

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