Realtek RTL8191S in Ubuntu 10.10

Alex — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:09:22 +0000

Errors:

$ sudo ifconfig wlan1 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable

$ dmesg usb
rtl819xU:FirmwareDownload92S(): failed with TCR-Status: a
rtl819xU:ERR!!! _rtl8192_up(): initialization is failed!

Solution 1:

To get this wifi dongle working I simply had to download the above firmware and place it in /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/ and then reboot my computer. You should check that location before hand and make a backup of anything inside of it if you’re not sure what you are doing. If it’s empty you can use the following commands to make the directory and then download the firmware directly.

sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/
cd /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/
sudo wget http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/dists/trunk/firmware-nonfree/realtek/RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin

Solution 2:

Alternatively download the source and build it:

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33927923/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009.tar.gz
tar -zxvf rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009.tar.gz
cd rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009
make
sudo make install

Downloads:
Firmware: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/dists/trunk/firmware-nonfree/realtek/RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin

Source: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33927923/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009.tar.gz

Alex Sleat » realtek

Realtek RTL8191S in Ubuntu 10.10