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



> I too have an elderly Thinkpad (R34) and it does pretty much the same thing. I'm wondering is
> something like ndiswrapper ??
> https://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper    :) Ric

Hello Ric,
Thanks, great idea. Perhaps, it could work as a last resort. But since native driver for this wireless chipset exists I'd rather try to understand what's wrong with it in order to make it work out of the box.



2014-08-06 10:30 GMT+04:00 S4mmael <s4mmael@gmail.com>:
>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.





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