Bug 5888 - No RTL9188CE wireless, rtlwifi-firmware missing
Summary: No RTL9188CE wireless, rtlwifi-firmware missing
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Keywords: NEEDINFO
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Reported: 2012-05-13 16:07 CEST by Robert Evans
Modified: 2012-05-14 18:55 CEST (History)
1 user (show)

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Source RPM: drakx-net
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Description Robert Evans 2012-05-13 16:07:34 CEST 
Description of problem:
After pristine installation of Mageia2 RC, my RTL9188CE wireless is not detected.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mageia 2RC
2. RTL9188 wireless does not appear under Wireless when attempting to set it up in Mageia Control Center
Comment 1 Robert Evans 2012-05-13 16:11:31 CEST 
Attached computer to wired connection and ran updates on the system. Wireless still did not show up.
Comment 2 Robert Evans 2012-05-13 16:23:29 CEST 
Added the rtlwifi-firmware package and adapter was then detected and performed correctly.

Perhaps this was left out of the ISO?
Robert Evans 2012-05-13 16:24:02 CEST

Summary: No RTL9188CE wireless => No RTL9188CE wireless, rtlwifi-firware missing

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-14 16:44:15 CEST 
"Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mageia 2RC
2. RTL9188 wireless does not appear under Wireless when attempting to set it up
in Mageia Control Center"

1 dvd, live ?
2 that is what draknetcenter ? drakconnect ?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Component: Release (media or process) => RPM Packages
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-net

Comment 4 Robert Evans 2012-05-14 17:30:48 CEST 
From DVD.

Do not they both end up in the same place? Draknetcenter will not show the wireless adapter; drakconnect will of course be useless as the adapter will not be there either, it will only give hte option for ndiswrapper.

The ftlwifi-firmware package is missing from the DVD.
Comment 5 Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-14 17:41:32 CEST 
drakconnect should ask you to install the needed package and it that was fixed for 2 weeks. (if you have online reposity enable), for drakxnetcenter I'm not sure.

and since rtlwifi-firmware is a nonfree package it can't be in dvd (contain only free stuff)

Summary: No RTL9188CE wireless, rtlwifi-firware missing => No RTL9188CE wireless, rtlwifi-firmware missing

Comment 6 Robert Evans 2012-05-14 18:28:33 CEST 
Ahh.. ok I see what you're saying. Since I couldn't have an online connection because of the wireless firmware missing, I wasn't prompted for the firmware (kind of a cart before the horse kind of thing). So this was fixed on the liveCD but not the DVD which is what I should be using.

Correct?
Comment 7 Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-14 18:55:33 CEST 
Yes, all nonfree drivers are now in the livecd (was almost right with the 1)

And if want there is boot-nonfree.iso like the boot.iso with nonfree driver, but I'm off topic.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID
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