[SOLVED] Problems While Installing Realtek RTL8192SE Drivers

[WeltEnSTurm]

Soo.. I'm completely new to Fedora 15 and after changing the root UUID of the Live USB I got it to boot from it and install without problems.
Now I got a problem because my RTL8191SvA wireless ethernet network adapter apparently isn't supported.
That wouldn't really be a problem, but installing the drivers from the RealTek site doesn't work. I can compile, but when I run "sudo make install" I get this:

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64'
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/lordrahl/Desktop/RTL8192SE/HAL/rtl8192'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64/build M= CC=gcc modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64'
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `missing-syscalls'.  Stop.
make[2]: *** [prepare0] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64'
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lordrahl/Desktop/RTL8192SE/HAL/rtl8192'
make: *** [install] Error 2

I searched and found a lot of similar stuff and even a bug report for this, but I can't find an actual solution.
Lots of cookies to the guys who make my notebook connect to a network without cable.
link to the driver

[calanor]

I have rtl8191 wifi chipset and I have successfully installed drivers from realtek website.

yum groupinstall development-tools

then a simple build and install of driver source. Its working for me.

[WeltEnSTurm]

I can successfully build the RTL8191SU driver, although I get a lot of pointer-to-int cast warnings (I'm on 64 bit), and nothing changes when I install it.
I need either RTL8191SE-VA2 or RTL8192SE, but for both of them this error occurs when trying to install.
And I already have the development tools.

[Iron_Mike]

If you successfully built the drivers you wouldn't get the pointer-in-cast errors.

Change to root permissions with SU - (don't forget the dash)


Then change into the directory that the drivers were extracted to. In my case it is:
~/Downloads/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010

Then run "make" then "make install"

Then reboot.

[WeltEnSTurm]

I don't think building with root will solve the pointer-to-int cast warnings, since it's an issue with pointers 64 bit size being cast to 32 bit integers. I don't get these warnings for the 2 8192SE drivers.
For the other two drivers, the error in the first post appears.
And I already tried building as root, all three of them - which didn't really change anything.

---------- Post added at 08:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:07 PM ----------

Seems like "su -" did it, thank you. But why didn't it work with sudo?

[paul8620]

I have the same problem with my wireless card.
Can you help me I can give you more details if you want. thx
When i try to build drivers I get the following error:
[CODE
]make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [all] Error 2
[/CODE]
lspci returns:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD 5600 Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5600 Series]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller (rev 10)
3f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
3f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
3f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
3f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
3f:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
3f:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)

[Iron_Mike]

You don't have the kernel headers/compilers present. See post number 3

Open a terminal window and change to root permissions with su - (don't forget the dash) and type:

yum groupinstall development-tools

then change the partition where you extracted the realtek drivers and type:

make

then

make install

then reboot and see if your wireless is detected in network manager

[paul8620]

For some reasons I forgot to give a restart after installing new headers for kernel
worked after reboot. Thx

[rndmusr]

Originally Posted by WeltEnSTurm

I don't think building with root will solve the pointer-to-int cast warnings, since it's an issue with pointers 64 bit size being cast to 32 bit integers. I don't get these warnings for the 2 8192SE drivers.
For the other two drivers, the error in the first post appears.
And I already tried building as root, all three of them - which didn't really change anything.

---------- Post added at 08:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:07 PM ----------

Seems like "su -" did it, thank you. But why didn't it work with sudo?

The same happened to me: worked with su but not with sudo. No idea why.

[AlanV]

I followed the instructions provided by Iron_Mike and my RTL8192SE wireless is now working
in Fedora.
A big thanks to Iron_Mike