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Marv · #151 Post by **Marv** » Sun 06 Jul 2014, 17:32

pchan wrote:Marv,

My MSI u270 netbook is using Realtek rtl8188ce 802.11n pci-e nic.
(As far as I know)

As a quick and dirty diagnostic stab, copy the directory /lib/modules/all-firmware/rtl8188_8192su into the directory /lib/firmware and reboot. Then use one of the network managers to look for a wireless Interface. I've been testing PeasyWifi with good sucess and like it. Not at all elegant (the hack above, not PeasyWifi

) but....

Edited once for Caps and clarity.

Chili Dog · #152 Post by **Chili Dog** » Mon 07 Jul 2014, 02:42

This looks beautiful.

Can we please have an sfs version?

pchan · #153 Post by **pchan** » Mon 07 Jul 2014, 06:26

Marv wrote:
pchan wrote:Marv,

My MSI u270 netbook is using Realtek rtl8188ce 802.11n pci-e nic.
(As far as I know)
As a quick and dirty diagnostic stab, copy the directory /lib/modules/all-firmware/rtl8188_8192su into the directory /lib/firmware and reboot. Then use one of the network managers to look for a wireless Interface. I've been testing PeasyWifi with good sucess and like it. Not at all elegant (the hack above, not PeasyWifi ) but....

Edited once for Caps and clarity.

I created a savefile for xslacko 2.0. next, I copied rtl8188_8192su folder
from /lib/modules/all-firmware/
to /lib/firmware/

reboot
no luck

Marv,

Thanks anyway.

@rg66

I tried to run pup-kview from terminal
but it doesn't want to run.

So, if I want to use xslacko, i might have to settle for x-slacko 1.1 for now.

rg66 · #154 Post by **rg66** » Mon 07 Jul 2014, 07:35

@ pchan

/usr/local/Pup-Kview/Pup-Kview. You need the CAPS.
Or you can use lsmod from terminal and look for rtl8188xx

If not you can try Control Panel > System > BootManager > Modules tab > Add new module and try rtl8188ee or maybe rtlwifi.

01micko · #155 Post by **01micko** » Mon 07 Jul 2014, 10:20

run something like:

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dmesg | grep -E "wifi|rtl|wlan|phy" > dmesg-pchan.txt

and post the contents

pchan · #156 Post by **pchan** » Mon 07 Jul 2014, 14:01

01micko,

I did what was suggested and below are the results

[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 2.033430] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 4096-byte physical blocks
[ 21.415908] rtl8192ce: Using firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
[ 21.431619] rtlwifi: Firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin not available

THANKS!

pchan · #157 Post by **pchan** » Mon 07 Jul 2014, 14:14

rg66,

From Pup-Kview

results (I don't know most of it):

▶—— "56" Loaded Kernel Modules (lsmod) ——◀

Total Memory Used: "5838.50" KB

MODULE: BYTES USED BY
ac 2356 0
agpgart 17718 2 drm,ttm
aufs 124580 2061
battery 8797 0
button 3351 0
cfg80211 117933 3 wl,mac80211,rtlwifi
drm 138490 4 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon
drm_kms_helper 23787 1 radeon
evdev 6399 0
fan 1719 0
fuse 47723 4
hwmon 874 3 k10temp,radeon,thermal_sys
i2c_algo_bit 3760 1 radeon
i2c_core 12576 5 drm,i2c_piix4,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,radeon
i2c_piix4 6449 0
k10temp 1936 0
lib80211 2494 1 wl
mac80211 175139 3 rtlwifi,rtl8192c_common,rtl8192ce
mperf 796 0
pcspkr 1236 0
processor 22544 0
r8169 34157 0
radeon 645318 2
rfkill 10038 1 cfg80211
rtl8192c_common 41788 1 rtl8192ce
rtl8192ce 55442 0
rtlwifi 69782 1 rtl8192ce
serio_raw 2962 0
sg 16606 0
shpchp 17978 0
snd 34138 17 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_pcm_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_device,snd_mixer_oss
snd_hda_codec 56855 3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 17790 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 41583 1
snd_hda_intel 17194 2
snd_hwdep 3776 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_mixer_oss 9732 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 4714 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 47653 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss 26791 0
snd_rawmidi 12106 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 32274 6 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device 3517 5 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_dummy 916 0
snd_seq_midi 3217 0
snd_seq_midi_event 3589 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_oss 18988 0
snd_timer 11582 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
soundcore 3243 1 snd
squashfs 18738 1
thermal 6128 0
thermal_sys 9583 4 fan,video,thermal,processor
ttm 36772 1 radeon
video 9603 0
wl 3927565 0
wmi 5844 0

Marv · #158 Post by **Marv** » Mon 07 Jul 2014, 17:20

pchan wrote:01micko,

I did what was suggested and below are the results

[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 2.033430] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 4096-byte physical blocks
[ 21.415908] rtl8192ce: Using firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
[ 21.431619] rtlwifi: Firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin not available

THANKS!

rtl8192cfw.bin does exist in /lib/modules/all-firmware/rtlwifi. That directory is symlinked from /lib/firmware but possibly the symlink doesn't work in this instance? Could try replacing the symlink in /lib/firmware with the rtlwifi directory from /modules/all-firmware, reboot, and repeat 01mickos directions above. Could also try copying that .bin directly into /lib/firmware.

pchan · #159 Post by **pchan** » Tue 08 Jul 2014, 01:41

Marv wrote:
pchan wrote:01micko,

I did what was suggested and below are the results

[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 2.033430] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 4096-byte physical blocks
[ 21.415908] rtl8192ce: Using firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
[ 21.431619] rtlwifi: Firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin not available

THANKS!
rtl8192cfw.bin does exist in /lib/modules/all-firmware/rtlwifi. That directory is symlinked from /lib/firmware but possibly the symlink doesn't work in this instance? Could try replacing the symlink in /lib/firmware with the rtlwifi directory from /modules/all-firmware, reboot, and repeat 01mickos directions above. Could also try copying that .bin directly into /lib/firmware.

I did as you suggested that is I found the file, rtl8192cwf.bin and copied it over to /lib/firmware/ then reboot. Unfortunately, it didn't work. I didn't recreate the Sy link because when I clicked on it, it appeared to work.

Hopefully, a solution can be found. Previously versions of puppy slacko , I have never encountered this problem before. Puppy slacko up to slacko 5.6 always worked very well on my netbook. Something changed from slacko 5.7 onwards.

gcmartin · #160 Post by **gcmartin** » Tue 08 Jul 2014, 02:09

Hello @PChan

You indicated that you copied the file. I need to ask, when you shutdown, did you save the session? And, when you rebooted I also ask; Did you check your library to see if the file you copied is there in the location you copied to?

Hope this helps

pchan · #161 Post by **pchan** » Tue 08 Jul 2014, 08:10

gcmartin wrote:Hello @PChan

You indicated that you copied the file. I need to ask, when you shutdown, did you save the session? And, when you rebooted I also ask; Did you check your library to see if the file you copied is there in the location you copied to?

Hope this helps

gcmartin,

Yes, I checked again. After reboot, the settings was saved properly and the file, rtl8192cfw.bin is still at /lib/firmware/

This time. using simple file sharing, the wlan button appeared.
But when I clicked on the wlan button, I immediately get a black screen with lines of wordings. (see attached)

Then, nothing else could get me back to terminal or the windows gui. I tried pressing ctrl+alt+backspace but nothing worked. Finally, I had to press and hold the power on/off button of my netbook to shutdown.

starhawk · #162 Post by **starhawk** » Tue 08 Jul 2014, 22:33

Ouch, that's a kernel panic. Puppy just left a stinky one on the carpet!

01micko · #163 Post by **01micko** » Tue 08 Jul 2014, 22:37

No it's a kernel "oops".

Seems like a bug in the rtl8192ce kernel module. I'm afraid not much can be done apart from using a different kernel. Or possibly ndiswrapper if you can locate a windows driver and blacklist rtl8192ce. May still need the firmware though.

Sage · #164 Post by **Sage** » Wed 09 Jul 2014, 05:49

bug in the rtl8192ce kernel module

Some of these Realtek devices regularly throw up non-detections (even detection without operation) and have been discussed in other threads over the last 2-3yrs+. Sometimes two devices show up instead of one causing confusion - BK knew how to fix that. Blacklisting may be required. One simple solution has been to alias them as a similar device. But which one?! Trial and error or consult one of the Forum experts who know about these things. Search.

rg66 · #165 Post by **rg66** » Wed 09 Jul 2014, 11:04

X-slacko-2.1 PAE is available for download, the Non-PAE will come soon and will be named 2.1n.

ISO: http://www.carolina-linux.com/rg66/X-slacko/iso/
Delta: http://www.carolina-linux.com/rg66/X-slacko/iso/delta/

ISO Md5: 7009870c85025d9262c2aee383143c0d
Delta Md5: 9fe2e5ae776a8d0bc406fc56ede36c18

rg66 · #166 Post by **rg66** » Thu 10 Jul 2014, 07:16

X-slacko-2.1n Non-PAE is ready for download

ISO: http://www.carolina-linux.com/rg66/X-slacko/iso/
Delta: http://www.carolina-linux.com/rg66/X-slacko/iso/delta/

Many thanks to Geoffrey for uploading.

rg66 · #167 Post by **rg66** » Fri 11 Jul 2014, 02:39

X-slacko-2.1 ISO's have been pulled to sort out some issues (thanks Marv).

yerc1 · #168 Post by **yerc1** » Fri 11 Jul 2014, 23:21

rg66 wrote:X-slacko-2.1 ISO's have been pulled to sort out some issues (thanks Marv).

You may already know that mtpaint does not run.

Error message in terminal:
mtpaint: error while loading shared libraries: libjasper.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

rg66 · #169 Post by **rg66** » Sat 12 Jul 2014, 05:15

yerc1 wrote: You may already know that mtpaint does not run.

Error message in terminal:
mtpaint: error while loading shared libraries: libjasper.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I did, thanks. Marv caught some stuff which made me pull the ISO's. I'm working on new ones as we speak.

rg66 · #170 Post by **rg66** » Mon 14 Jul 2014, 07:44

Version 2.1 and 2.1n (non-pae) delta's and ISO's have been uploaded again.

ISO's: http://carolina-linux.com/rg66/X-slacko/iso/
Md5: http://carolina-linux.com/rg66/X-slacko ... um_iso.txt

Delta's: http://carolina-linux.com/rg66/X-slacko/iso/delta/
Md5: http://carolina-linux.com/rg66/X-slacko ... _delta.txt

Thanks as usual to Geoffrey for uploading.

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