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 * RTL8188SU, RTL8191S, RTL8192SU and RTL8192U chipset support is currently not available.

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USB: 0BDA:8171 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Device name unknown) USB: 0BDA:8171 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter

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Realtek RTL8192E, RTL8188SU, RTL8191S, RTL8192SU, RTL8192U devices

This page describes how to enable support for WiFi devices based on Realtek 802.11n chipsets on Debian systems.

Contents

  1. Realtek RTL8192E, RTL8188SU, RTL8191S, RTL8192SU, RTL8192U devices
    1. Drivers
    2. Installation
    3. Supported Devices
    4. See Also
    5. External Links

Drivers

rtl8192e and rtl8192su are vendor drivers for Realtek 802.11n wireless LAN chipsets. They are included as staging drivers in the mainline Linux kernel.

The produced kernel modules are:

Firmware is required and must be installed prior to device operation.

<!> These staging drivers are only available for the x86 and x86-64 architectures (Debian i386 and AMD64 ports respectively) at this time.

{i} Realtek 802.11b/g devices are supported by different drivers.

Installation

Lenny users:

  • For RTL8192E chipset support, install a backported kernel image from Debian Backports. Restart your system with this kernel before continuing.

  • RTL8188SU, RTL8191S, RTL8192SU and RTL8192U chipset support is currently not available.

  1. Install the subversion and wireless-tools packages: 

    # aptitude update && aptitude install subversion wireless-tools
# exit

  2. Acquire and install device firmware: 

    $ svn export svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/trunk/firmware-nonfree/realtek/RTL8192E
$ svn export svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/trunk/firmware-nonfree/realtek/RTL8192SU
$ su
# mkdir /usr/local/lib/firmware
# cp -r RTL8192* /usr/local/lib/firmware
  3. If not already performed, connect the device to your system.

  4. The necessary kernel module should be automatically loaded. If necessary, it can be manually loaded via either: 

    # modprobe r8192_pci

    or 

    # modprobe r8192s_usb

  5. Verify your device has an available interface: 

    # iwconfig

  6. Raise the interface to activate the radio, for example: 

    # ifconfig wlan0 up

  7. Configure your wireless interface as appropriate.

Supported Devices

r8192_pci

The page HowToIdentifyADevice/PCI explains how to identify a PCI device.

The following list is based on the alias fields of modinfo r8192_pci in Debian 2.6.32 kernel images. 

  • PCI: 07AA:0044 (Vendor name unknown) (Device name unknown)
PCI: 07AA:0047 (Vendor name unknown) (Device name unknown)
PCI: 10EC:8192 Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192E Wireless LAN Controller

r8192s_usb

The page HowToIdentifyADevice/USB explains how to identify a USB device.

The following list is based on the alias fields of modinfo r8192s_usb in Debian 2.6.32 kernel images. 

  • USB: 050D:805E Belkin Components F5D8053 N Wireless USB Adapter v5000 [Realtek RTL8192U]
USB: 050D:815F Belkin Components F5D8053 N Wireless USB Adapter v6000 [Realtek RTL8192SU]
USB: 06F8:E031 Guillemot Corp. Hercules HWNUm-300 Wireless N mini [Realtek RTL8191S]
USB: 07AA:0043 Corega K.K. CG-WLUSB300N rev A2 [Realtek RTL8192U]
USB: 0BDA:8171 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter
USB: 0BDA:8172 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8191S WLAN Adapter
USB: 0BDA:8192 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Device name unknown)
USB: 0BDA:8709 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Device name unknown)
USB: 0DF6:0031 Sitecom Europe B.V. (Device name unknown)
USB: 0DF6:004B Sitecom Europe B.V. WL-349v3 Wireless Micro Adapter 150N X1 [Realtek RTL8192SU]
USB: 1740:9201 Senao (Device name unknown)
USB: 2001:3301 D-Link Corp. [hex] DWA-130 802.11n Wireless N Adapter(rev.C1) [Realtek RTL8192U]
USB: 5A57:0290 Zinwell ZW-N290 802.11n [Realtek RTL8192SU]

See Also

CategoryHardware | CategoryWireless