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MEPIS Novice   Joined: Mon May 10, 2010 3:14 pm Posts: 8 Location: New Zealand Has thanked: 0 time Have thanks: 0 time 
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Post # 297669
 Wireless WoesRecently purchases a new laptop.
Compaq Presario CQ57-410TU. This uses a 64 bit Intel CPU. The laptop came with MS Windows 7 (the “normal” MS tax). Initially I thought I might dual boot with Linux, but a check of the file system showed MS and Compaq/HP were using all four primary partitions. So out it went. I installed Mepis 11 in it's place. The installation went without any problems. The computer runs well, with snappy performance, but there is one problem. Wireless will not work! A check of the user manual shows how this might be fixed via settings/ Mepis Network Assistant/ Troubleshooting. This shows the windows driver bcw15. I have downloaded and extracted the required windows XP 64 bit driver from realtek, and tried to install it by following the instructions, but it fails with the message “The sys file for the given driver cannot be determined after parsing the inf file” I see there is a link to a Mepis file when I search on this text (“MConfig Configuration has been modified The configuration options … “ mnetwork.ts.zip). There is no indication what the file is, how to use it etc. This would suggest that someone else has also faced this problem. Any guidance on resolving this would be appreciated. |
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| Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:33 pm |
 
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Post # 297670
Re: Wireless Woes
http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php? ... diswrapper Follow the cli instructions under Older MEPIS Versions. _________________ Asus M4A87TD USB3 AMD 870 Socket AM3 Athlon II X4 630 2.8GHz Quad Core GeForce 9500 GT 1GB PCIe, nVidia TwinView Kingston 2G x 2 1333 DDR3 WD Caviar 500GB x 2 SATA hdd |
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| Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:38 pm |
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MEPIS Enthusiast  Joined: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:07 pm Posts: 7357 Location: Skullcrusher Mountain, Santee, CA USA Has thanked: 322 times Have thanks: 1187 times
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Post # 297673
Re: Wireless Woes "bcw15" seems to indicate Broadcom, but you mention you tried a driver from Realtek. Let's break out the command line and see what's really in there...try running Konsole and executing
lspci to get a list of the PCI hardware. _________________ Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 14 inch: 4 GB RAM, Intel i5-480 processor, Intel HD graphics and sound, Intel 1000 "n" WiFi, Acer CrystalEye webcam, Hot Keys, suspend, hibernate, KDE openGL effects: all work out of the box with 64-bit MEPIS 11! |
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| Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:47 pm |
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MEPIS Guide   Joined: Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:02 pm Posts: 1869 Location: New Zealand BOP Has thanked: 20 times Have thanks: 276 times
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Post # 297694
Re: Wireless Woes You could enable the community repos and install the liquorix kernel, which should be sufficient to get the wireless working.
Mike P _________________ Mike P Regd Linux User #472293 (1)Lenovo e520, i7-2640M, 8GB, 500GB Seagate Hybrid, M11-RoadblockB-64 (2) Asus M4A88TD-M, AMD Phenom II x4 955 CPU, Radeon HD 4250, 4Gb, 1.5TB, M11-64 |
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| Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:42 am |
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MEPIS Novice Joined: Mon May 10, 2010 3:14 pm Posts: 8 Location: New Zealand Has thanked: 0 time Have thanks: 0 time
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Post # 297720
Re: Wireless Woes Hi and thanks for your interest.
The solution suggested by uncle mark unfortunately did not work, with an error being reported from ndiswrapper. Here is the lspci output
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| Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:42 pm |
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MEPIS Guide  Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:30 pm Posts: 1243 Location: Flinthills of Kansas, USA Has thanked: 183 times Have thanks: 112 times
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Post # 297724
Re: Wireless Woes maybe as root....
modprobe 8188CE ifup wlan0  _________________ http://patentabsurdity.com/ Toshiba Tecra M-6 Laptop 1.6Ghz core duo, 1.5g ram, 12M wlan "beware a frequent flirt with potential disaster" |
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| Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:46 pm |
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MEPIS Enthusiast Joined: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:07 pm Posts: 7357 Location: Skullcrusher Mountain, Santee, CA USA Has thanked: 322 times Have thanks: 1187 times
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Post # 297725
Re: Wireless Woes That won't work...the driver can be built from Realtek's source for the M11 2.6.36 kernel, or else it's included in Linux kernels from 2.6.39 and higher. You are probably going to be much happier with a newer kernel for Cougar point hardware, anyway. Maybe the 3.2 kernel debs I have in package sharing, or the 3.2 kernel in squeeze-backports. Both will need the firmware-realtek package from squeeze-backports to get the thing to work, too: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-back ... re-realtek
_________________ Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 14 inch: 4 GB RAM, Intel i5-480 processor, Intel HD graphics and sound, Intel 1000 "n" WiFi, Acer CrystalEye webcam, Hot Keys, suspend, hibernate, KDE openGL effects: all work out of the box with 64-bit MEPIS 11! |
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| Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:46 am |
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MEPIS Novice Joined: Mon May 10, 2010 3:14 pm Posts: 8 Location: New Zealand Has thanked: 0 time Have thanks: 0 time
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Post # 297783
Re: Wireless Woes Stevo, thank you for this information.
I'm still trying to understand several things. 1. How did you work out what I needed from the information provided (I like to understand). 2. How do I go about selecting the correct kernel from the plethora listed at http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/kernel/ (which I assume is the area you directed me to. Once I have the files downloaded how do I handle installation? As you can see, I'm rather out of my depth in this area. |
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| Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:41 pm |
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MEPIS Enthusiast Joined: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:07 pm Posts: 7357 Location: Skullcrusher Mountain, Santee, CA USA Has thanked: 322 times Have thanks: 1187 times
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Post # 297809
Re: Wireless Woes Well, this is your wifi device:
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01) A little Googling with the search terms "RTL8188CE" and "Linux kernel driver" soon turned up the answer. This page is very good: http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x As you can see from the page, support was added in the 2.6.38 kernel. We do have a 2.6.39 Liquourix kernel in our community repo that does have many positive review, so I'd try that first. See here: http://main.mepis-deb.org/ Then search for "liquorix" in the Synaptic search box. Install linux-headers-2.6-liquorix-amd64 and linux-image-2.6-liquorix-amd64. These should install and then boot under the "newest kernel" entry in the GRUB boot menu. The older kernel can be booted under the older kernel entry. Let me know if it does not boot---sometimes we have to boot to the older kernel and manually create a boot file with an "update-initramfs" magic command. The firmware-realtek deb file still needs to be downloaded from that link above and installed by clicking it. Take a look in the MEPIS manual about how to use "gdebi" to install them, it's very easy. _________________ Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 14 inch: 4 GB RAM, Intel i5-480 processor, Intel HD graphics and sound, Intel 1000 "n" WiFi, Acer CrystalEye webcam, Hot Keys, suspend, hibernate, KDE openGL effects: all work out of the box with 64-bit MEPIS 11! |
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| Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:25 pm |
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Post # 297811
Re: Wireless Woes
Just back on this bit - for a moment - I've generally found that the 4th primary partition is usually the "D" drive under M$. so I convert that to a extension/logical drive(s) senerio - as that partition is usually quite large, anyway. |
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