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

[Pascal Terjan]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 23:50, simple w8 <simplew8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/4/12 Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com>:
>> 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
>
> These are not the only differences, check the output:
>
> ~]$ LC_ALL=C diff -U 3
> /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi
> /mageia/kernel-firmware-nonfree/SOURCES/linux-firmware-nonfree-20120219/rtlwifi
> Only in /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi:
> rtl8192cfwU.bin
> Only in /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi:
> rtl8192cfwU_B.bin
> Binary files /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin
> and /mageia/kernel-firmware-nonfree/SOURCES/linux-firmware-nonfree-20120219/rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin
> differ
> Only in /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi:
> rtl8192defw_12.bin
> Binary files /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192sefw.bin
> and /mageia/kernel-firmware-nonfree/SOURCES/linux-firmware-nonfree-20120219/rtlwifi/rtl8192sefw.bin
> differ
> Only in /mandriva/kernel-firmware-extra/SOURCES/linux-firmware/rtlwifi:
> rtl8192sefw.old.bin

Well I don't know where they are coming from, not from upstream.
Maybe from the driver provided on realtek site?