RTL8192E Wifi card

[ashio83]

Congrats on a superb release guys. Just thought id report this in the HCL section. I have a RTL8192E wireless card and it is being reported by airmon-ng as having a RTL8187 chipset (which it doesnt) and driver in use is r8187, this is obviously wrong because i used this card in BT4 r2 no probs. Just to let you know the issue is there. This problem occurs in 64 bit Gnome and both 64 and 32 bit versions of KDE. I havnt tried 32 bit gnome but i presume the issue still exists there too.
Cheers.

SOLVED:

1) Check if your headers and source packages are up to date:

sudo apt-get install linux-source linux-headers-`uname -r`

2) Download Realtek r8192e driver archive from here:

http://people.debian.org/~benh/rtl-wlan/

I think the latest is rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0015.1013.2010.tar.gz

3) CD to download location and extract with:

tar -xvjf rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0015.1013.2010.tar.gz

4) When you installed the kernel source package in step (1) it puts an archive in /usr/src We need to extract that source archive.
First we need to find source package version number, do so by inputting:

dpkg -p linux-source | grep Depends

5) When we have the source package version number, we can extract the archive in /usr/src:

sudo tar -C /usr/src -xvjf /usr/src/linux-source-your version number.tar.bz2

6) Now we can build and install the driver
CD into the Realtek r8192e driver archive we downloaded in step 2.

7)

sudo make

then

sudo -s make install

8) Next add module to kernel:

sudo modprobe r8192e_pci

9) Now we need to edit the modules file. Use your favourite editor

nano /etc/modules

or

gedit /etc/modules

or

kate /etc/modules

Add this line to the bottom then save

r8192e_pci

Reboot and all should be well.
Mods please move this if it is now in the wrong place. Thanks.

[dangerousgangsta]

Hello.

I have a few question about this. When you say its working, does that mean with monitor mode + injection?

I have also stumbled across some problems whilst following your instructions. I have an N210 with the RTL8192e chipset, BT5 is also recognising this as RTL8187.

The part i'm having an issue on is:

sudo apt-get install linux-source linux-headers-`uname -r`

I get:

linux-source is already the newest version.
E: Couldn't find package uname -r

tar -xvjf rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0015.1013.2010.tar.gz

it just does not go ahead and tells me:

bzip2. (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returning status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

If i replace -xvjd with -xzf it goes through but when I then get too:

sudo tar -C /usr/src -xvjf /usr/src/linux-source-your version number.tar.bz2

which gives me the same error as mentioned above.
(linux-source-2.6.39.4)

I'm doing this via a LIVE BT5 USB because I want to see if it works with my netbook before doing a proper install. Is there any way you can help me? Thanks.

Dan.
(all commands are executed under root@root:~#

Another thing, in your instructions you say to reboot, but if I do that I will lose all changes as it's a LIVE i'm testing it on, is there no way to see the results without restarting?

UPDATE: I've also just tested the BT4-R2 and my RTL8192e card is not listed at all. iwconfig doesn't show it either. airmon-ng gives a blank display.