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Re: Re : Re : Make WiFi work.



Le 22/11/2011 18:09, Nicolas Bercher a écrit :
De : Hugo Vanwoerkom<hvw59601@care2.com>
  It seems you're rong since this driver is not reported to be supported
in squeeze (requires linux>  3.0, etc.).
  Wiki's explaination are valid only for wheezy.  Hence, a squeeze user
must use testing and unstable repositories to get fresher packages, this
procedure is not described on the wiki.

Ah, you are running squeeze.
But I see no reason that the wiki procedure can't be followed for squeeze:

1. Install firmware-realtek, unzip and wireless-tools for squeeze
2. wget
ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Wireless/dwa130_revC/Drivers/dwa130_revC_drivers_linux_006.zip
3. unzip dwa130_revC_drivers_linux_006.zip
4. su
    mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/firmware/RTL8192U
    cp rtl8192u_linux_2.6.0006.1031.2008/firmware/RTL8192U/*         /usr/local/lib/firmware/RTL8192U

That copies the firmware. Then a reboot should load r8192e_pci, or modprobe it.

No dependency in wheezy.
Sorry, my explaination where funded on the assumption that, as far as I experienced, it is not possible to successfully load a module into the kernel (without triggering a magic number mismatch) when it was compiled from a different source tree, that is surely the case.  So I might missed something recently...?

Note that package firmware-realtek (with support for RTL8191SE, v>0.31) is available from squeeze-backports too, so Paul could use aptitude to get it, this seems more clean and sustainable.

The problem is that it doesn't work anyway (or I can't make it work)...
I'll try apt-offline, which at least will perhaps allow me to solve other problems.

Thanks to all,
Paul

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