Realtek wifi driver help

[zfish]

I download the driver from realtek, which what I needed was rtl8188ce. I have no idea how to make or install it. I thought I found a thread that would help but it didn't do me any good. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you for your time.

zFish

[doktor5000]

Please as root in a terminal provide the output of

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lspcidrake -v | grep NET

and

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rpm -qa | grep firmware

[doktor5000]

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r8169           : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:10ec device:8136 subv:1179 subd:ff1e) (rev: 05)
rtl8192ce       : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:10ec device:8176 subv:10ec subd:8212) (rev: 01)

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kernel-firmware-20120219-1.mga2
carl9170-firmware-1.9.4-1.mga2

[doktor5000]

I've just added some code-tags to your post to improve on clarity ..

What you probably need is this package: rtlwifi-firmware

Name : rtlwifi-firmware
Version : 20121030
Release : 1.mga2.nonfree
Group : System/Kernel and hardware
Size : 321459 Architecture: noarch
Source RPM : kernel-firmware-nonfree-20121030-1.mga2.nonfree.src.rpm
URL : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary : Nonfree rtlwifi firmware files for the Linux kernel
Description :
This package contains all the rtlwifi wireless firmware files
previously shipped in rtl8192se-firmware and
kernel-firmware-extra/nonfree packages.

Please show the output of

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urpmq --list-media active

or take a look at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Software_management
to learn how to enable the nonfree repositories, where rtlwifi-firmware is contained.

[zfish]

Thank you for helping me out. I went ahead and tried Mageia 3 and it worked right out of the box.