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

[simple w8]

2012/4/13 Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com>:
> 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?

When i said upstream i was refering to realtek, that whats mandriva
has in kernel-firmware-extra and thats with those firmware files that
i can get things working properly.