On 05/13/2014 02:45 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Kapshuk [mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 7:00 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Having Trouble with Wireless Interface
>
> On 05/12/2014 10:31 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
>> Hi all. I got Espeakup to finally function, but I have a problem now
>> with my Realtech 8188 WiFi adapter, Rev01, according to ifconfig. I
>> know it shows up as wlp7s0 on an ifconfig, normally. But for what ever
>> reason, it isn't showing up. I have, in my /etc/conf.d/net the line:
>> wlp7s0="DHCP". When I run ifconfig wlp7s0 up, I get an error about how
>> the device is not able to be found. The driver shows up as a module in
>> the kernel.
>>
> I use wpa_supplicant to manage my wireless connections.
> Here's what I have in my /etc/conf.d/net:
> # Prefer wpa_supplicant over wireless-tools modules="wpa_supplicant"
>
> wpa_supplicant_wlp2s0="-Dnl80211"
>
> And the output of lspci:
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless
> Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 137b
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
> Memory at d6000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
> Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
> Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Count=1 Masked-
> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
> Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
> Kernel driver in use: ath5k
> Kernel modules: ath5k
>
> Are you setting up wireless after doing a fresh install, or did you have it
> working before and then it just stopped working for you?
>
> This is fresh. And genkernel doesn't show RTL8188CE in the staging drivers.
> It shows drivers with uffixes U and Eu, but not the CE driver.
>
>
Looks like the kernel driver for your wireless NIC is RTL8192CE
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/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/Kconfig:12,22
config RTL8192CE
tristate "Realtek RTL8192CE/RTL8188CE Wireless Network Adapter"
depends on PCI
select RTL8192C_COMMON
select RTLWIFI
select RTLWIFI_PCI
---help---
This is the driver for Realtek RTL8192CE/RTL8188CE 802.11n PCIe
wireless network adapters.
If you choose to build it as a module, it will be called rtl8192ce
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If you like to check if RTL8192CE is enabled in your kernel's .config
file. If it isn't, you probably want to compile it as a module, and then
add rtl8192ce to /etc/conf.d/modules as well.
