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Bill Giannikos (Home Page)
Fedora 12 does not support either the Realtek 8172 or 8192se as standard. This guide will help you add support for these wireless controllers to your system.
These are not the best drivers ever written and may exhibit problems (such as dropouts) from time to time. If you are having issues you may like to periodically check if newer drivers have been released and install those.
For Realtek 8172 owners, while this guide talk about using the 8192se driver it works for the 8172 as well.
You should run a full update for your installation of Fedora to ensure you have all the latest packages installed.
Here are the steps in installing the Realtek drivers.
1. Open a web browser and head to the Realtek 8192se driver page. From here you need to download the latest Linux driver. At the time of writing this was 0014 so we will use that version in this guide, your file name and folder created will be slightly different than the one below if you downloaded a different version.
2. Load up a terminal window if you are in the graphic interface.
3. Switch to the root user with:
su -
You will be asked for your root password.
4. Type in the following to install gcc and the kernel headers:
yum install gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers patch make
5. Move to the /usr/src/ folder with:
cd /usr/src
6. Now extract the contents of the file you downloaded with the following command (make sure to replace /path/to/ to the actual path you downloaded the file to):
sudo tar xzvf /path/to/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0014.0115.2010.tar.gz
7. Move into the newly created folder with
cd rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0014.0115.2010
8. Lets copy across the required firmware with this command:
cp -rf firmware/RTL8192SE /lib/firmware
9. Now lets build the driver:
make
You may get an error at this stage depending on your kernel. Don't worry about it, the stuff we need is compiled.
10. These set of drivers contain a whole lot of rubbish we don't need, so we only want to copy the driver module itself. Use the following two commands to install the driver:
cp HAL/rtl8192/r8192se_pci.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/ depmod -a
11. Optionally, you may like to delete the driver folder now, use the following command:
rm -rf /usr/src/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0014.0115.2010
12. Reboot your computer and your realtek wireless controller should begin to work.
Please note that if Fedora release an updated kernel you will have to go through the above steps again but make sure you skip the copying of the firmware.
Discussion
All great until step 9. make
make: * /lib/modules/2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: * [all] Error 2
Just my luck…
Looks like you don't have the headers installed, try this:
and try step 9 again.
I have toshiba satellite L555D-S7910 which has realtek 8192. It is running Fedora 12 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64. I went thru the steps listed above with no error and after reboot nothing happens. Only wired network shows up.
#iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
I see the *ko file in /lib/module. What could be the problem? Any help is greatly appreciated.
ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/r8192se_pci.ko
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 10944811 2010-04-05 19:05 /lib/modules/2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/r8192se_pci.ko
Thanks, worked perfectly on Fedora 13! Does this have to be done after every kernel upgrade?
Yes you will.
I got the same error.
I tryed “yum install kernel-headers” so I got:
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Package kernel-headers-2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
What can I do now??
You can just continue on, you already have the required packages installed.
Bill,
Thanks for the great guide. I used it to get an Inland PRO Mini USB to Wi-Fi dongle working on a Fedora 13 installation. Your instructions weren't 100% correct for my setup, but they got me in the ballpark.
Here's what I ended up doing:
NOTE: The rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.0006.20100625 drivers do not include pre-built firmware (your step 8), but some device firmware seems to be part of either Fedora 13 or the build process. I went looking for it after the build and found it in /lib/firmware.
Thanks again,
Michael
I have severe problem with my card Pentagram P 6132-10 (it has for sure chipset RTL8188SU).
I will be grateful if you could help me with this:
1. I have installed Fedora 13 64bit version.
2. I followed point from 1 to 10 (in 8th point I had to add ”.ko” prefix to complete file name 8712u.ko).
3. Hardly I have plugged card, the screen fade to black and keyborads LEDs are blinking.
All the best,
after i made step 9 i get this error
make: * /lib/modules/2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: * [all] Error 2
and i installed kernel-headers but it still gives me the same error so please help me
Make sure your system is completely up to date with the latest updates and restart your computer. You'll need to start this process again so delete the newly created folder with the command (as root):
and begin the guide from the start.
Jeez, I thought I would never get rid of the internet cable! I've tried countless amount of solutions and always something was wrong – the driver was unstable and kept disconnecting or after loading the module my computer completely froze… and after using your guide everything works perfectly (at least till now, we shall see ;)! Thanks a lot!
Thanks for the great instructions. Fedora 13 people may have to install kernel-PAE-devel for the /lib/modules/…/build symlink target.
in tried this guide on fedora 14 and got error on step 9:
make: * /lib/modules/2.6.35.6-46.fc14.i686/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: * [all] Error 2
i even tried yum install kernel-headers and still i got an error. i restarted pc and still the same.
what else can I try?
about the command “make” on step 9, is it executed at /usr/src/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0018.1025.2010 ?
thats the current directory i'm last on.
maybe im running the command in the wrong directory?
Works Perfectly! I really appreciate the instruction.
Awesome instructions.
The recent Fedora 14 upgrades basically deleted the REALTEK drivers which I had installed using your instructions.
Keep up the excellent work!!!!
hello im new on Fedora someone know why i get this error?
cp: cannot stat `HAL/rtl8192/r8192se_pci.ko': No such file or directory
thanks.
Thanks a lot man. This worked. I had to change the file names to match but it worked. It was a lot easier to get my RealTek 8188CE working in ubuntu linux than it was in Fedora.
I am trying to learn Linux, but it seems all the people who know how look down their noses at newbs like me. Thanks for your help!
I tried following this guide but it couldn't find anything to make in step 9 and couldn't find the .ko file to copy in step 10. I'm using Fedora 14. Any ideas? Thanks!
Larry
I tried following this guide, but it couldn't find anything to make in step 9 and couldn't find the directory/file in step 10. I'm using fedora 14. Any ideas? Thanks!
Larry
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Bill,
Thanks for writing this! Works perfectly with CentOS 6 x86_64, too.
Jay