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Offline woodman

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RTL8192 wifi driver issue (and solution)
« on: February 28, 2014, 08:55:49 AM »
I'm posting this in case it helps someone else with the same problem.

I could not get wifi working on my laptop (it uses a RTL8192se device) with TinyCore 5.2.  When I checked for installed extensions in the System Stats application I realized that the firmware-rtl8192ce-se-de extension was not being loaded, even though I had flagged it as 'on boot'. Further investigation showed that the extension's dependency, wl-rtl8192ce-se-de-KERNEL.tcz, was not present in the repository and this was preventing the loading of the firmware-rtl8192ce-se-de extension. By simply removing the firmware-rtl8192ce-se-de.tcz.dep file from my 'optional' folder, the extension loaded and my wifi started working. I'm not sure why the wl-rtl8192ce-se-de-KERNEL.tcz extension is listed as a dependency or why my system works without it, but it does.

Offline coreplayer2

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Re: RTL8192 wifi driver issue (and solution)
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2014, 03:56:46 PM »
Thanks for the info,
rtl8192se.ko is now provided in wireless-3.8.13-tinycore.tcz

So the dep file for firmware-rtl8192ce_se_de.tcz  either needs updating or removing
« Last Edit: February 28, 2014, 04:02:16 PM by coreplayer2 »

Offline Juanito

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Re: RTL8192 wifi driver issue (and solution)
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2014, 03:33:50 AM »
Updated - thanks