Realtek RTL8191SE

[lukus]

Yes please, drivers would be fantastic if that's at all possible? I wouldnt mind hosting them on a few sites I admin if its useful at all. I really need drivers for this chipset pretty quickly. Cheers

[AdeHall]

Hi Aurawin

Please let me know how I can get this driver - I have emailed Realtek but they are out until the 4th!

Can you send it to me?

Regards

[Snow Pickles]

I'm no expert but I managed to get it working on my Toshiba l505.

I got the driver from http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...oads=true#2281
in the RTL8191SE-VA2 section.
Then I did

sudo su
make
make install
reboot

For some reason way beyond my understanding just "sudo make install" won't work and gives some error about "No rule to make target `kernel/bounds.c', needed by `kernel/bounds.s' ."
Hope this helps

[mdalacu]

yes it's working but only for a short period of time ...
After 1 min or so , the wifi connection is dead. My card is in a Asus EeePC 1201N netbook.
i also get this error during boot: ACPI: I/O resource nForce2_smbus [0x4e00-0x4e3f] conflicts with ACPI region SM00 i don't know if they are related. Anyway, my wifi card does not work properly with the latest Realtek drivers. .

[Infil]

I thought I would share my experiences. I have a Clevo W760 with RTL8191SE running 9.10.

I first tried the official Realtek driver and it installed without hassle. However I couldn't connect to anything, even unencrypted networks.

Then I downloaded file I found here (it's from the bug report linked to previously). Now I can connent to unencrypted networks and it seems it even discovers more networks. But when I try to connect to a WAP network I can't use the regular password, but I have to use the long encryption key which I copied from the connection settings from another computer. A bit annoying.

[qwerty123321]

I'm no expert but I managed to get it working on my Toshiba l505.

I got the driver from http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...oads=true#2281
in the RTL8191SE-VA2 section.
Then I did

sudo su
make
make install
reboot

For some reason way beyond my understanding just "sudo make install" won't work and gives some error about "No rule to make target `kernel/bounds.c', needed by `kernel/bounds.s' ."
Hope this helps

OMG thank you so much!! my wireless now works !!! thank you!

[AdeHall]

No such luck for me I'm afraid. I tried the latest downloaded drivers and followed the same instructions as above but it's still not working.

Here's the output from the lshw command:


*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
vendor: Attansic Technology Corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
version: c0
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:b6000000-b603ffff ioport:2000(size=128)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
logical name: wlan3
version: 10
serial: 00:e0:4c:81:92:68
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl819xSE driverversion=0013.1127.2009 firmware=74 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=802.11bgn
resources: irq:17 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:b6100000-b6103fff


As you can see the wired ethernet card is not working either making it difficult to apply changes!

Does anyone have any ideas please?

[mdalacu]

No such luck for me I'm afraid. I tried the latest downloaded drivers and followed the same instructions as above but it's still not working.

Here's the output from the lshw command:


*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
vendor: Attansic Technology Corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
version: c0
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:b6000000-b603ffff ioport:2000(size=128)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
logical name: wlan3
version: 10
serial: 00:e0:4c:81:92:68
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl819xSE driverversion=0013.1127.2009 firmware=74 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=802.11bgn
resources: irq:17 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:b6100000-b6103fff


As you can see the wired ethernet card is not working either making it difficult to apply changes!

Does anyone have any ideas please?

Do you have Asus 1201N notebook? I have one, and i got my ethernet working by booting with acpi=off parameter (one problem: no touchpad). After that it was no longer required. With the latest drives my wifi is working aprox. for one minute only...

[AdeHall]

I have a Toshiba T130 laptop

[Taburn]

My connection also works for a couple of minutes then dies out. I have a Toshiba Satellite L500. This happens when I install the drivers with the make install command as well as when I copy the firmware to the Kernel (method 2 from the realtek readme file). Is anyone having this problem with Ubuntu 32 bits? (I'm using 64 bits).