Re: Wireless card unavailable in Debian, but works in Ubuntu

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:18 AM, S4mmael <s4mmael@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a liittle problem with a wireless card of a cheap HP laptop. It works
> perfectly well out of the box in Ubuntu 14.04, but not in Debian Jessie.
>
> Here is what a managed to find.
>
> In Ubuntu it looks like that:
>
> root@ubuntu:~# dmesg | grep 02:00.0
> [    0.986323] pci 0000:02:00.0: [10ec:8179] type 00 class 0x028000
> [    0.986347] pci 0000:02:00.0: reg 0x10: [io  0x2000-0x20ff]
> [    0.986383] pci 0000:02:00.0: reg 0x18: [mem 0x90700000-0x90703fff 64bit]
> [    0.986486] pci 0000:02:00.0: supports D1 D2
> [    0.986490] pci 0000:02:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
> [    0.986542] pci 0000:02:00.0: System wakeup disabled by ACPI
>
> root@ubuntu:~# lspci -s 02:00.0 -v
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE
> Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
>     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 197d
>     Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
>     I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
>     Memory at 90700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>     Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
>     Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
>     Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
>     Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
>     Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-e0-4c-ff-fe-81-91-01
>     Capabilities: [150] Latency Tolerance Reporting
>     Kernel driver in use: rtl8188ee
>
> Whereas in Jessie it looks like that:
>
> root@debian:~# dmesg | grep 02:00.0
> [    1.109622] pci 0000:02:00.0: [eaea:eaea] type 6a class 0xeaeaea
> [    1.109628] pci 0000:02:00.0: unknown header type 6a, ignoring device
>
> root@debian:~# lspci -s 02:00.0 -v -H1
> 02:00.0 Class eaea: Device eaea:eaea (rev ea) (prog-if ea)
>     !!! Unknown header type 6a
>
> It's only available in the output of lspci with -H1 option.
>
> I'm aware that header type 6a is incorrect, but is there any workaround or
> something? How do I make the card work in Debian? It seems to be really
> interesting to find out how Ubuntu does that and use the same technique in
> Debian.

Which jessie kernel are you running?

# find /lib/modules/3.14-1-amd64 -name rtl8188ee.ko
/lib/modules/3.14-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/rtl8188ee.ko

# find /lib/modules/3.14-2-amd64 -name rtl8188ee.ko
/lib/modules/3.14-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/rtl8188ee.ko

Can you modprobe this driver?