[Mageia-dev] rtl8192ce missing firmware files in kernel-firmware-nonfree

[Pascal Terjan]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 22:33, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 21:19, simple w8 <simplew8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a realtek wifi card:
>>
>> ~]# lspcidrake -vv|grep -i wifi
>> rtl8192ce       : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL8188CE
>> 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:10ec device:8176
>> subv:10ec subd:9196) (rev: 01)
>>
>> it uses kernel module rtl8192ce (still dont understand why Mageia is
>> calling as "RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter" where is a 8192)
>
> rtl8192ce is the driver for RTL8192CE and RTL8188SE
>
> It seems pci.ids have same description for all of them:
>
> vendor: 10ec ("Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."), device: 8176
> ("RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter")
> vendor: 10ec ("Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."), device: 8177
> ("RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter")
> vendor: 10ec ("Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."), device: 8178
> ("RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter")
> vendor: 10ec ("Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."), device: 8191
> ("RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter")
>
> You can request it to be fixed on
> http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/10ec/8176 if you know what should be the
> name
>
>> untill today it has happened that when writing, multiple times i get
>> characters repeated like the keyboard key was stuck.
>>
>> When i runned Mandriva cooker 2 months ago i didnt had this problem so
>> i went to see the differences between both packages
>> kernel-firmware-nonfree (from Mageia) and kernel-firmware-extra (from
>> Mandriva) and i saw that there are missing firmware files in the
>> Mageia package, these files exist upstream, so i dont understand why
>> werent them all put available in Mageia...
>
> I presume you the files are:
>
> rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin
> rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU.bin
> rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
>
> Surprisingly http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=rtlwifi;h=97aae7b3721b48e08450c2e29b40d4d480797b5f;hb=HEAD
> doesn't have the same names for them:
>
> -rw-r--r--      13540   rtl8192cfw.bin  blob | history | raw
> -rw-r--r--      16014   rtl8192cufw.bin blob | history | raw
> -rw-r--r--      20526   rtl8192defw.bin blob | history | raw
> -rw-r--r--      88856   rtl8192sefw.bin blob | history | raw
> -rw-r--r--      129304  rtl8712u.bin    blob | history | raw
>
>> In conclusion, after adding the missing firmware files into
>> /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/ i finally started having a normal behaviour
>> when writing (it didnt happen again to have repeated characters like
>> keyboard keys were stuck).
>> Willl these files be added into the package or will i have continue to
>> have attention if files that exist upstream are packaged?
>
> It seems there is a bug in the file WHENCE
>
> Driver rtl8192e - Realtek 8192 PCI wireless driver
> File: RTL8192E/*
> Licence: Redistributable, provided by Realtek in their driver
>         source download.
>
> There should be a ":" after Driver, so the script does not get it.
>

Hmm and actually this is not the correct rtl driver, the other one is
correct but still this one should be fixed
And the script is only to put then in -free, in case it is not known
it would stay in nonfree, and it is actually in
kernel-firmware-nonfree

I had forgotten to give  --media nonfree to urpmf

$ urpmf --use-distrib /distrib/bootstrap/distrib/cauldron/i586 --media
nonfree rtl8192cfw.bin
kernel-firmware-nonfree:/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin