Jeff Barr - Horror/SciFi/Fantasy Pulp Fiction Writer » Linux http://jeffbarr.com Schlock and awe. Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:57:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The User Controls The OS, Not The Other Way Around http://jeffbarr.com/writing/the-user-controls-the-os-not-the-other-way-around/ http://jeffbarr.com/writing/the-user-controls-the-os-not-the-other-way-around/#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:57:29 +0000 Jeff http://jeffbarr.com/?p=51 I am not a Koan!

]]> http://jeffbarr.com/writing/the-user-controls-the-os-not-the-other-way-around/feed/ 0 Getting Wireless Adaptor Working in Ubuntu 9.10 With RTL8192SE Linux driver http://jeffbarr.com/linux/getting-wireless-adaptor-working-in-ubuntu-9-10-with-rtl8192se-linux-driver/ http://jeffbarr.com/linux/getting-wireless-adaptor-working-in-ubuntu-9-10-with-rtl8192se-linux-driver/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:41:12 +0000 Jeff http://jeffbarr.com/?p=18 If you have a Toshiba laptop, there’s a good chance it has a Realtek RTL8191SE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC or some minor variation of same. Realtek apparently doesn’t make it very easy to find drivers for linux for this card – the person who posted the driver said he got it from Realtek, and I don’t have any real reason to doubt that. It works for me, in any case. Here are the steps I took to be able to use WiFi on my Toshiba Satellite P505. YMMV, so feel free to give a thorough read of the problem and solutions available at the Ubuntu help/bug forums. The driver tarball is available to download from that thread. rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009.tar.gz (1.3 MiB, application/x-tar)

only load the driver module to kernel and start up nic.
1. Build up the drivers from the source code
make
2. Copy firmware to /lib/firmware/ or /lib/firmware/(KERNEL_VERSION)/
cp -rf firmware/RTL8192SE /lib/firmware
or
cp -rf firmware/RTL8192SE /lib/firmware/(KERNEL_VERSION)
Note: This depends on whether (KERNEL_VERSION) subdirectory exists under /lib/firmware

3. Load driver module to kernel and start up nic.
./wlan0up

And now back to writing.

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