Help with Realtek Wireless Card

[Han Solo]

Hej folks,

I am somehow desperated with my internal Wireless Card, because I simply do not get it to work..
The maschine is a MEDION Akoya e1312 Netbook with an internal Realtek Wifi-Card, like I mentioned below:

lspci
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvB
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 10)

iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.
eth0      no wireless extensions.

I do have the .inf-files from the Windows driver, so if there would be no native possibility to run this card, I also could use ndiswrapper. But here I have the next problem: I do not know, how to install nor use ndiswrapper on fedora!

Anyone out there, having an idea, how to get that card working?

If this helps, here is my hardware profile:
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pu...3-6b2be717716b

[Skull One]

Hello,
I don't know if there is a linux driver for your card , but you can find a fedora howto for ndiswrapper here :
http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/ndis-yum-livna

[Han Solo]

Thank you! I will give it a second try with ndiswrapper.
But I forgot to mention, that under Ubuntu 10.10 the internal wifi worked out-of-the-box. So isn't that an indication, that somewhere (but where? ) this driver has to be already implemented?

[Skull One]

Originally Posted by Han Solo

Thank you! I will give it a second try with ndiswrapper.
But I forgot to mention, that under Ubuntu 10.10 the internal wifi worked out-of-the-box. So isn't that an indication, that somewhere (but where? ) this driver has to be already implemented?

Therefore there is a driver for linux
Try this :

yum install kmod-staging

If you are lucky enough, it will provides the driver.
I guess it is the module 'r8192e_pci', but not sure...

[ask4nutz]

download the driver here:

http://218.210.127.131/downloads/dow...191SE-VA2#2302

rpm -xvf rtl*
cd rtl*
make
make install
reboot

i made this post wirelessly right after the previous steps.

[flansuse]

Realtek is quite good with their customer service. Before they published the 8188CE wireless driver on their web page (also good for 8176 chipsets), I emailed them that I was using Linux and needed a driver for my wireless card. I pasted the line from my 'lspci', and within 2 hours I received a reply from Realtek with the source code attached in .tar.gz format!

The rest was a matter of make and make install as root.

You can bet I replied with a huge thank you.

[ptireland]

I have a Toshiba 645D Laptop with a RealTek 8188CE Wireless N Adapter. When I used Ubuntu linux, I was able to follow RealTek's instructions. But now that I'm trying to learn Fedora, it was a lot harder.

I performed the visudo command and enable the wheel group and add my account to that group and rebooted, but the instructions from RealTek still didn't work to install the drivers on Fedora 14.

This site helped me a lot in walking me through the install.

http://www.linwik.com/wiki/using+the...7d4c235d51b216

I really wish I knew what all of the commands really did, but as a long-time Windows network admin, I can tell learning Fedora is going to take me some time to learn. Thank goodness for sites like this who don't look down on us newbs as everyone on the IRC channels do.