Realtek RTL8192SE Not working in Fedora 17

[AlanV]

Hi,

I have recently installed F17 on a Samsung N220 netbook dual booting with Win7 but am unable to connect via wireless with the Realtek RTL8192SE Wireless LAN Controller in F17.
Commands and messages so far:
#lspci
Network Controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd RTL8192E/RTL8192SE Wireless LAN Controller (rev01)

#modprobe rtl8192se

#lsmod | grep 8192
rtl8192se 62113 0
rtlwifi 63028 1 rtl8192se
mac80211 47103 2 rtlwifi, rtl8192se

#ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Could anyone please offer assistance in resolving this problem.

Thanks in advance

Alan

[AlanV]

Problem solved following instructions provided by Iron_Mike.
A big thanks to Iron_Mike

[trispad]

Can you post a link to Iron_Mike's instructions?

Thanks,

trispad

[AlanV]

This is what I tried from Iron_Mike

Re: Problems While Installing Realtek RTL8192SE Drivers
You don't have the kernel headers/compilers present. See post number 3

Open a terminal window and change to root permissions with su - (don't forget the dash) and type:

yum groupinstall development-tools

then change the partition where you extracted the realtek drivers and type:

make

then

make install

then reboot and see if your wireless is detected in network manager

[trispad]

Thanks for the info!

That ended up not working for me, not sure why. A lsmod would show the rtl8192se module, but it did not bind to my wireless card even after building/installing Realtek module.

What did work for me was to install 'kmod-staging' via rpmfusion. This brought down the module r8192e_pic which did bind to my wireless card.

Thanks for the help,

trispad

[AlanV]

Glad you got it working in the end.
It took me ages trying out different threads.