[Bug 544485] Re: Wifi broken for Toshiba Satellite M500 series with RTL 8192 (r8192se_pci driver)

Brad Philips bradphilips at earthlink.net
Sat May 1 13:41:18 UTC 2010


I am also affected by this bug.  I was able to get around it (somehow)
in Beta 2 and RC1 by installing the driver into /lib/modules/'uname
-r'/kernel/drivers/net and running depmod -a and copying the firmware to
the /lib/firmware.  This also worked for reboots, but when I upgraded to
the Final; this is now broken again.  Problem is, though I did a lot of
attempts before I got it to work and I cant really remember what I did.
I think the kernel driver is somehow overriding the installed version.
And as stated before, the only solution seems to be either:

rmmod r8192se_pci
insmod /lib/modules/'uname -r'/kernel/drivers/net/r8192se_pci.ko

or run the ./wlan0down - up scripts.

BTW..  I also tried the make install which installs it to
/lib/modules/'uname -r'/kernel/drivers/net/wireless.  Does anyone know
the right location for this??

Has anyone tried blacklisting the kernel driver?  I don't know if this
will also blacklist the installed driver too; but I think I'll try it
and write the outcome in this issue..  I've been working with linux for
awhile, but still a little bit of a newbie in the kernel world...: )

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Wifi broken for Toshiba Satellite M500 series with RTL 8192 (r8192se_pci driver)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/544485
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