Saturday 26 November 2011

Thinkpad x120e, RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter

Thinkpad x120e, RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter

Hi, I come from ubuntu and well, i have tried sl6 for a while now and ... to be honest i realy like it, I have had issues with wireless adapters in the past but I have been able to solve them quickly, now this is the second day I dont have wireless in this computer i purchased, i was wondering if someone could help me with this, the output of

lspci -v :

04:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8195
Physical Slot: 0
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Memory at d0100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 01-91-81-fe-ff-4c-e0-00

I downloaded the driver from realtek website and it was the RTL8188CE
but when i do make or make install i get an error

make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-131.21.1.el6.x86_64/build M=/home/kp4x/Documents/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0004.0816.2011 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-131.21.1.el6.x86_64'
CC [M] /home/kp4x/Documents/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0004.0816.2011/base.o
/home/kp4x/Documents/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0004.0816.2011/base.c: In function '_rtl_init_mac80211':
/home/kp4x/Documents/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0004.0816.2011/base.c:320: error: 'IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/kp4x/Documents/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0004.0816.2011/base.c:320: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/kp4x/Documents/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0004.0816.2011/base.c:320: error: for each function it appears in.)
/home/kp4x/Documents/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0004.0816.2011/base.c: In function 'rtl_watchdog_wq_callback':
/home/kp4x/Documents/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0004.0816.2011/base.c:1258: error: implicit declaration of function 'ieee80211_connection_loss'
make[2]: *** [/home/kp4x/Documents/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0004.0816.2011/base.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/kp4x/Documents/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0004.0816.2011] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-131.21.1.el6.x86_64'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I apologize if my mistake is a little silly but I'm not an advanced user any answer would be appreciate it, thanks in advanced

Sincerely

kp4x

2 comments:

  1. I'm dealing with the same issue...if you have any other links on how to fix, I'd love to see them. Thanks

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  2. was this issue ever resolved? I've been searching for work around for days.

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