Problem: Realtek Semiconductor RTL8190 does not work

Problem: Realtek Semiconductor RTL8190 does not work

[Arliton Rocha]

Hi,

The following card does not work. 
    Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8190 802.11n Wireless LAN
Tried in various versions of the linux kernel, even the recent version (3.5-
rc6).
Finding i could see several people reporting the same problem. In mailing list 
archives i not find anything related.

The command lspci -n returns id: 10ec:8190 
http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/RTL8192E.html
The link above shows that is related with the module rtl8192e_pci (staging).
Load this module does not change anything.
Version 2.6.38.8 has this id: 
http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.38.8/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/r8192E_core.c (not 
works).
Version 2.6.39 removed (i think): 
http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.39/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/r8192E_core.c
Version 3.2.23 doesn't have: 
http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.2.23/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
Version 3.4.4 doesn't have: 
http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.4.4/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
I have tried but so far I could not understand the code, so I'm available to 
test code suggestions or give more information.

Best regards.

Hardware information:

lspci -n:

    03:00.0 0280: 10ec:8190


lspci -vvv:

    03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8190 802.11n 
Wireless LAN
        Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8190 802.11n Wireless LAN
        Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+ INTx-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 255
        Region 0: I/O ports at <unassigned> [disabled]
        Region 1: Memory at bfa00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] 
[size=64K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-
,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-



ver_linux:

If some fields are empty or look unusual you may have an old version.
Compare to the current minimal requirements in Documentation/Changes.
 
Linux linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae #1 SMP Thu Jun 28 08:56:46 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
 
Gnu C                  4.6
Gnu make               3.81
binutils               2.22
util-linux             2.20.1
mount                  support
module-init-tools      3.16
e2fsprogs              1.42
reiserfsprogs          3.6.21
PPP                    2.4.5
Linux C Library        2.13
Dynamic linker (ldd)   2.13
Procps                 3.2.8
Net-tools              1.60
Kbd                    1.15.3
Sh-utils               8.13
wireless-tools         30
Modules Loaded         cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_stats cpufreq_powersave 
cpufreq_conservative ppdev lp bnep rfcomm bluetooth rfkill crc16 fuse nfsd nfs 
lockd fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl sunrpc loop snd_hda_codec_hdmi 
snd_hda_codec_realtek coretemp snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm_oss 
snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event crc32c_intel 
snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device snd soundcore snd_page_alloc aesni_intel 
iTCO_wdt cryptd aes_i586 aes_generic i2c_i801 iTCO_vendor_support evdev 
acpi_cpufreq mperf pcspkr parport_pc parport processor ext3 jbd mbcache sd_mod 
crc_t10dif sr_mod cdrom usb_storage uas usbhid hid ata_generic ata_piix ehci_hcd 
i915 libata scsi_mod usbcore usb_common r8169 mii drm_kms_helper drm 
i2c_algo_bit button i2c_core video thermal_sys

Re: Problem: Realtek Semiconductor RTL8190 does not work

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

Arliton Rocha wrote:

> The following card does not work.
>     Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8190 802.11n Wireless LAN

> lspci -n:
>
>     03:00.0 0280: 10ec:8190

There is no support for RTL8190P devices in any upstream realtek driver.

It's only supported by an old vendor driver.

You can get it from: http://people.debian.org/~benh/rtl-wlan/rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0015.1013.2010.tar.gz
or by request to wlanfae@realtek.com