Le 23/11/2011 09:18, Joel Roth a écrit :
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 08:06:32AM +0100, Paul Isambert wrote:Le 22/11/2011 20:52, Joel Roth a écrit :On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:29:44PM +0100, Paul Isambert wrote:Hello, I've just installed Debian next to Windows 7, with the first DVD (i.e. debian-6.0.3-amd64-DVD-1.iso). It was not without trouble, but now it works. The problem is the wifi. My card (Realtek RTL8191SE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC, says Windows) is apparently not recognized. I've tried various solutions explained here and there, I have installed firmware-realtek and ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant and I don't know what, nothing worked.Hi Paul, Fellow RTL8191SE sufferer here (in a ThinkPad T410.) In my case, lspci says: 03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller (rev 10) The ndiswrapper approach never worked for me. I compiled kernel 2.6.36 with the driver source I downloaded>from Realtek.http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=48&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true#RTL8191SE-VA2I'd already tried to compile those... but compilation failed. Are you telling me I should compile the kernel itself with them? I.e. download Debian's sources, add those drivers somewhere (where?), and recompile everything?Not telling you to. But that's how I managed to get it to work. It took me months, of intermittent random walking down paths to various possible solutions. It is stupid, since you should only need the kernel headers to compile a module. I would like to do it that way, and move the module into the /lib/modules/<kernel_version> hierarchy, but I never did figure out how to get the driver indexed so that modprobe would find it. I was hoping someone would also comment on how to activate Realtek drivers in the kernel staging directory. Then there's manual kernel compilation (which I've generally been able to make work) and then there is the Debian Way, which creates a kernel package.
I've tried to compile the drivers (once I understood I needed linux-headers for whatever reason, compilation went well). Strangely, you indicated firmware that is available with another version of the driver on the Realtek site. Anyway modprobe found nothing (I think it does find other things I have installed earlier, though).
Alternatively, you can buy a cheap USB wireless device that *is* supported, till you can get the Realtek stuff sorted out.
I think I'll do just that. I'm getting pretty weary of it all, but I'd hate to give up for something so stupid.
Thanks to all, Paul