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Installing Wireless Driver Linux Wifi

The document discusses installing a wireless driver for a Realtek 8188CE wireless adapter on Debian Wheezy. It provides the output from running lspci and iwconfig which show the adapter but no wireless extension. It then lists the steps taken which included updating to Wheezy, editing the sources.list file, installing updates, and installing the realtek and wireless tools packages, after which wireless worked as confirmed by iwconfig.

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Installing Wireless Driver Linux Wifi

The document discusses installing a wireless driver for a Realtek 8188CE wireless adapter on Debian Wheezy. It provides the output from running lspci and iwconfig which show the adapter but no wireless extension. It then lists the steps taken which included updating to Wheezy, editing the sources.list file, installing updates, and installing the realtek and wireless tools packages, after which wireless worked as confirmed by iwconfig.

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Installing wireless driver (realtek 8188CE) on

Debian wheezy
I had a hard time installing the wireless driver for my debian. My debian
was Sqeeze but soon after I realized Wheezy was the one to support my
wireless adapter, realtek 8188CE,I upgraded to wheezy. Here is my
sources.list file:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib
non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
contrib non-free

I followed the exact steps listed on the Debian wiki. At step 4, after I typed
in iwconfig,there was no tag for wifi (shouldn't it be there?), I figured the
wifi module was not loaded, but I didn't know how to check and add it
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Here is my printout:
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clint@Thinkpad-W520:~$ lspci | grep -i wifi
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8188CE
802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)

The iwconfig output:


lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
pan0 no wireless extensions.

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edited Sep 27 '12 at asked Sep 27 '12 at
22:54 3:16
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Gilles Cong Hui
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It went perfect for me:

For starters list what pci devices are currently present


% lspci
....
07:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)

Modify /etc/apt/sources.list
% deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib
non-free

install updates
% apt-get update

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% apt-get install firmware-realtek wireless-tools

confirm wirelss is working


% iwconfig
wlan0

IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any


Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
TxPower=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7
RTS thr=2347 B
Fragment
thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
eth0

no wireless extensions.

edited Jan 16 '13 at


7:05

answered Jan 15 '13 at


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Just a note for anyone reading this, Wheezy used to be the testing branch
at the time this answer was written. Nowadays, Wheezy is the stable
branch so testing in /etc/apt/sources.list up there would refer to

Jessie. Joseph R. Sep 14 '13 at 0:21


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Never for any reason should be mixed repositories from Debian stable with
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testing branch. However you can add in your repositories backport repository
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and then you can get a newer kernel to work with RTL8188CE Realtek
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