[SOLVED] RTL8188CE CentOS 6.2

[RogueWatchmen]

They have linux drivers for this card, but when I tried to install them it gave me compatability errors.

============ lspci ============
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS880 Host Bridge [1022:9601]
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:165c]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx) [1022:9602]
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1) [1022:9605]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2) [1022:9606]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:0a.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 5) [1022:9609]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391]
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:165c]
	Kernel driver in use: ahci
	Kernel modules: ahci
00:12.0 USB controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:165c]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:12.2 USB controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:165c]
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:13.0 USB controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:165c]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:13.2 USB controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:165c]
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 42)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:165c]
	Kernel modules: i2c-piix4
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383] (rev 40)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:165c]
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller [1002:439d] (rev 40)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:165c]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384] (rev 40)
00:14.5 USB controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller [1002:4399]
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:165c]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:16.0 USB controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:165c]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:16.2 USB controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:165c]
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration [1022:1200]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map [1022:1201]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller [1022:1202]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control [1022:1203]
	Kernel driver in use: k10temp
	Kernel modules: k10temp
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control [1022:1204]
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series] [1002:9712]
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:165c]
	Kernel driver in use: radeon
	Kernel modules: radeon
01:05.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4200 Series] [1002:970f]
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:165c]
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [10ec:8176] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1629]
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:165c]
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169
04:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5116 PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:5209] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:165c]

============ lsusb ============
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05c8:021e Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd (Foxlink)

============ lsmod ============
Module                  Size  Used by
fuse                   55994  0 
autofs4                20825  3 
sunrpc                197985  1 
bnx2fc                107603  0 
cnic                   45323  1 bnx2fc
uio                     8366  1 cnic
fcoe                   17372  0 
libfcoe                33413  2 bnx2fc,fcoe
8021q                  18925  0 
libfc                  92030  3 bnx2fc,fcoe,libfcoe
garp                    5927  1 8021q
stp                     1589  1 garp
scsi_transport_fc      40950  3 bnx2fc,fcoe,libfc
llc                     4354  2 garp,stp
scsi_tgt                9997  1 scsi_transport_fc
cpufreq_ondemand        8512  2 
powernow_k8            16359  0 
mperf                   1253  1 powernow_k8
ipt_REJECT              1931  2 
nf_conntrack_ipv4       7694  2 
nf_defrag_ipv4          1039  1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
iptable_filter          2173  1 
ip_tables               9567  1 iptable_filter
ip6t_REJECT             3987  2 
nf_conntrack_ipv6       7207  2 
nf_defrag_ipv6          9873  1 nf_conntrack_ipv6
xt_state                1064  4 
nf_conntrack           65524  3 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6,xt_state
ip6table_filter         2245  1 
ip6_tables             10867  1 ip6table_filter
ipv6                  264641  38 cnic,ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_defrag_ipv6
uinput                  6244  0 
sg                     24612  0 
microcode              12152  0 
uvcvideo               55188  0 
videodev               65378  1 uvcvideo
i2c_piix4              11156  0 
k10temp                 2529  0 
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     21786  1 
snd_hda_codec_idt      52473  1 
snd_hda_intel          21391  2 
snd_hda_codec          77649  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               5122  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_seq                45509  0 
snd_seq_device          5220  1 snd_seq
snd_pcm                66419  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              17758  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    51724  13 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               6486  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7042  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
r8169                  34151  0 
mii                     4315  1 r8169
ext4                  331566  1 
mbcache                 5976  1 ext4
jbd2                   73586  1 ext4
video                  16720  0 
output                  1805  1 video
sd_mod                 35435  2 
crc_t10dif              1217  1 sd_mod
sr_mod                 14245  0 
cdrom                  34094  1 sr_mod
wmi                     5183  0 
ahci                   33993  1 
radeon                957392  2 
ttm                    57516  1 radeon
drm_kms_helper         28144  1 radeon
drm                   185516  4 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit            4690  1 radeon
i2c_core               25825  6 videodev,i2c_piix4,radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
dm_mirror              11678  0 
dm_region_hash          9737  1 dm_mirror
dm_log                  8546  2 dm_mirror,dm_region_hash
dm_mod                 67661  2 dm_mirror,dm_log

============ dmesg-firmware ============

platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RS780_pfp.bin
platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RS780_me.bin
platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R600_rlc.bin
platform microcode: firmware: requesting amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin

============ kernel version ============

2.6.32-220.4.2.el6.i686

============ ifconfig ============
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 2C:27:D7:E2:B5:E5  
          inet addr:192.168.0.9  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e27:d7ff:fee2:b5e5/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3286 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3142 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2872131 (2.7 MiB)  TX bytes:504357 (492.5 KiB)
          Interrupt:27 Base address:0x8000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:480 (480.0 b)  TX bytes:480 (480.0 b)

============ iwconfig ============

[Rubberman]

Well, you dump a bunch of (possibly) irrelevant data on this thread, and expect a response? Trust me, this much data is only useful in context. 1) you don't say what your OS/kernel/environment may be. 2) you don't specify what the hardware is although to your credit you post the output of lsmod, lspci, and lsusb. After some analysis of your posting, the device you are concerned with is RTL8188CE, a RealTek WiFi chip set, correct? So, visit Welcome - Linux Wireless and see what it says about dealing with this device.

[RogueWatchmen]

All the irrelevent data was from the script thast was in the sticky thread at the top. I just cut and pasted is as it requested, also the OS and the device model is in the title so I don't know what was difficult about that either. As far as the kernal/enviroment I assumed that was in the data I cut and past, but as I'm just learning Linux I didn't post them because if it wasn't in the data requested I wouldn't know to even look for it in the first place. AFTER posting this thread I realized the kernel was in the "grey" area for the driver I downloaded and may or may not work per the readme. This was actuallt a topic continued from a diffrent thread in another forum, but it's fixed now.... I changed to Fedora lol.

[Rubberman]

All the irrelevent data was from the script thast was in the sticky thread at the top. I just cut and pasted is as it requested, also the OS and the device model is in the title so I don't know what was difficult about that either. As far as the kernal/enviroment I assumed that was in the data I cut and past, but as I'm just learning Linux I didn't post them because if it wasn't in the data requested I wouldn't know to even look for it in the first place. AFTER posting this thread I realized the kernel was in the "grey" area for the driver I downloaded and may or may not work per the readme. This was actuallt a topic continued from a diffrent thread in another forum, but it's fixed now.... I changed to Fedora lol.

Requested by whom? Your posting was the first in this thread. Anyway, glad you got it sorted out. Just remember, Fedora is an "experimental" distribution from Red Hat. What they learn from Fedora may (or may not) get integrated into the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions in the future. It is a "use at your own risk" distribution. Myself, I am running either Red Hat Enterprise 6.2, or clones of that, on my work systems, home systems, and laptops. It is a bit "dated", but dead-bang reliable!

[jayd512]

Requested by whom? Your posting was the first in this thread.

I believe he is referring to the Wireless Setup sticky.

[RogueWatchmen]

I didn't even look who requested it, it's just in the sticky as info to get you started I guess. I was in the Centos forums when I was talking about this and they sent me over here and told me to read the sticky and post from the script so thats what I did lol. The big reason I'm using Linux is to get used to the RH commands and get used to the way Linux in general works. I'm in school now for a MIS degree, but this SA class is my first exposure to Linux and so far I'm liking it. But like I said this is more of a pet project for me because the new HPC they installed is running CenOS 5.7 and we are running 6.2 in class, this just lets me run from my laptop and tinker with outside of class Outside this forum I had spent 5 hours doing various things trying to get it to work properly with centOS and when I went back to school that monday the Professor spent about 45 minutes with me before we concluded that the driver were not going to work in it's current state(they came from Realtechs site) so I went to a Fedora and everything worked right out of the box. I'd like to tag this as solved, but I cant figure out how to. Normally editing the first post works but theres not link to edit it.

[jayd512]

I'd like to tag this as solved, but I cant figure out how to. Normally editing the first post works but theres not link to edit it.

To mark it as SOLVED, click on the Thread Tools link in the dark blue nav bar near the top of the screen.

*EDIT*
Never mind... looks like you've found it.