The package in AUR (rtl8192se) provides the official driver and firmware from Realtek.
In the most recent kernels there is a driver for this card for the card in the staging area of the kernel, but I believe you still need a firmware file and it may not be installed by default. These days the Thinkpad wireless card is just a rebrand of the Realtek card. Most Thinkpads come with two options: Intel wireless or Thinkpad wireless. Is there a way out of this quaqmire? Would taking apart the case and finding the physical wifi card reveal anything useful without voiding the warranty?ĭon, from your lspci, you have a Realtek wireless card, not an Intel one. After a half dozen of these, things have gotten quite murky. Maybe something is a problem, maybe it is just irrelevant feedback. Without knowing what my card/chipset is, everything else I've tried has been a succession of guessing games based up seeming similarities. I just don't know where to start troubleshooting this. My last shot is going to be wicd once I restart. Trying the manual instructions for netcfg most things worked but it never ended up connecting to the router. However, when I tried to install NetworkManager, the gnome plugin applet came up with missing packages and wouldn't install. Rarely does my output match what they say I should see, but it doesn't seem to crash and burn so I just move on like it seems others using this driver have been. With the driver and firmware installed, iwconfig shows wlan0 as being 'nicknamed' "rtl8191SEVA2".īeing down in this rabbit hole already, I'm going through the Configuring_Network, Wireless_Setup, and WPA_Supplicant wiki pages as directed. The firmware I ended up downloading from Realtek was rtl8192se. Now the wireless tutorial here mentions a rtl8192e driver. Most of the hits are from Ubuntu sites so no one bothers to explain these types of things. Or maybe the 8192se chipset displays as a 8172 controller. A web search shows a number of hits on this saying the 8172 uses the same controller as the 8192se. I'm making progress, but don't like when programming ceases to keep a logical base and starts to work like magic. Ok, I'm getting way too dizzy working on this.
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