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

>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?

Tom, thank you for your contribution.

I'm on the lattest standard Jessie kernel, 3.14-something. Ubuntu, by the way, uses 3.13.
rtl8188ee.ko is available. I can easily modprobe it and see it in lsmod, yet it does not help since there is no wireless card in the output of lspci -nn, so kernel does not "know" the device exists.

2014-08-05 14:39 GMT+04:00 S4mmael <s4mmael@gmail.com>:

Darac, thanks for your answer.

firmware-realtek,firmware-linux-free, and firmware-linux-nonfree have been installed. Unfortunately, it's useless since Debian does not recognize the device at all.

Somehow I need to find a way to make system understand that PCI device 02:00.0 is a wireless card regardless of the header class. In this case there should not be any problem with the driver, I guess.

2014-08-05 14:17 GMT+04:00 Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk>:

On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 10:18:48AM +0400, S4mmael wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> 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

This being a Realtek device, you may need firmware to enable all its
features. Try installing the firmware-realtek package.