Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE

2014-09-17 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:51:02 +0300 softwatt wrote: > That's also understandable, hardware is a pain in the neck. :) That's a bit overestimated, I remember those days when not adding the right switche(s) to a module left the HW as good as dead (especially TV cards, it was a real PITA: tuner type

Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE

2014-09-17 Thread softwatt
That's also understandable, hardware is a pain in the neck. :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE

2014-09-17 Thread Brian
On Wed 17 Sep 2014 at 19:46:21 +0300, softwatt wrote: > On 09/17/2014 07:43 PM, Brian wrote: > > Resolve the situation of not having any functional WiFi? Purchase a USB > > device which does work with Debian. Normal working can then be easily > > achieved. > > I already do that. But some things h

Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE

2014-09-17 Thread softwatt
On 09/17/2014 07:43 PM, Brian wrote: > Resolve the situation of not having any functional WiFi? Purchase a USB > device which does work with Debian. Normal working can then be easily > achieved. I already do that. But some things have the so-called "hacking value". I want to fix this for the sake

Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE

2014-09-17 Thread Brian
On Wed 17 Sep 2014 at 19:01:59 +0300, softwatt wrote: > I recently bought a Lenovo Thinkpad T440P. The wireless driver did work > out of the box. It was not even recognized by the system. A quick search > revealed I am not the only one with the issue. I later learned that the > Wireless adapter re

Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE

2014-09-17 Thread softwatt
On 09/17/2014 07:09 PM, B wrote: > By default, NM doesn't manage any I/F that is cited > into /etc/network/interfaces; so you must either comment lines > in this file or enable the management of these I/F into NM > conf file. > Thanks! It's working surprisingly well. I will test it before con

Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE

2014-09-17 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 19:01:59 +0300 softwatt wrote: > So, I cloned the repo, compiled and installed. > Now, network-manager does detect the adapter, but it says "device not > managed". If i run `iwconfig` in a terminal, the device appears as > "managed". The device is not detected by `ifconfig`.

No wireless support for RTL8192EE

2014-09-17 Thread softwatt
I recently bought a Lenovo Thinkpad T440P. The wireless driver did work out of the box. It was not even recognized by the system. A quick search revealed I am not the only one with the issue. I later learned that the Wireless adapter requires a driver called RTL8192EE, which is not supported by Lin