Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 10:03:09 -0300
From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
To: Arif Ali <mail@arif-ali.co.uk>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, larry.finger@lwfinger.net
Subject: Re: r8192se_pci or rtlwifi/rtl8192ce
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 07:27:09PM +0100, Arif Ali wrote:
> Hi,
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> I was asked to post to this list wrt the problem I have with the wireless=
 on
> my new laptop
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> I have just bought a Thinkpad Edge 15, which has the following card
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>  *-network
>       description: Wireless interface
>       product: RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller
>       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>       physical id: 0
>       bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
>       logical name: wlan0
>       version: 10
>       serial: 5c:ac:4c:bc:27:1e
>       width: 32 bits
>       clock: 33MHz
>       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
>       configuration: broadcast=3Dyes driver=3Drtl819xSE
> driverversion=3D0019.1207.2010 firmware=3D63 ip=3D192.168.10.51 latency=
=3D0
> multicast=3Dyes wireless=3D802.11bg
>       resources: irq:18 ioport:d000(size=3D256) memory:d0500000-d0503fff
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> I have then tried to re-compile the drivers from realtek, with no avail,
> having similar problems
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> At the moment in Ubuntu 11.04, I am using r8192se_pci, which seems to be
> very flakey to say the least, where my connections from remote servers
> disconnect within 5 minutes. It was suggested to me that I use the
> compat-wireless drivers, of which I did
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> I tried loading the rtlwifi with rtl8192ce, but that didn't work and didn=
't
> see my card, but then I guess that would be expected as the aliases were =
not
> there for my card. although the DID is mentioned in the pci.h, so I was
> wondering would this driver work with my card, or should I be looking
> elsewhere?
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> Any input on advice on this card would be appreciated
> thanks
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> Arif Ali
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> --=20
> Arif Ali
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Hello, Arif.

I have a RTL8191SEvA card, not a vB. But I guess that should work. The
vendor and product ID are 0x10ec (Realtek) and 0x8171. It's working very
nicely with rtl8192se driver from rtlwifi from 3.0-rc1. That support
does not exist for 2.6.39 or previous versions of Linux.

Regards,
Cascardo.

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