[FIXED] Wireless does not work out of the box on Toshiba Qosmio x505-Q850

Bug #578128 reported by Kainous
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Bug Description

The driver is not pre-installed

This issue is present on both Version 8 "Helena" and version 9 "Isadora"

Upon finding the model of the driver (rtl8192se)
I contacted realtek for a driver.

I downloaded this file, extracted it, and then opened a terminal in its directory and did the following:

make
sudo su
enter password
make
make install
exit

And then reboot/restart and you're good to go.

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Kainous (kainous-the-grey) wrote :
Changed in linuxmint:
status: New → Triaged
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Berrie Mackin (mrberrie) wrote :

Is this also a solution for the Toshiba Satellite? Where is the link to the driver? Thanks!

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Kainous (kainous-the-grey) wrote :

Berrie I don't know. I suggest going to the Realtek website and emailing them like I did.

Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)
affects: ubuntu → linux (Ubuntu)
tags: added: kj-triage
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
tags: added: kernel-needs-review kernel-net
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Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee) wrote :

Kainous,

Fixes to the rtl8192se were included in the most recently released development kernel 2.6.35-16.22. We believe that these fixes may have an impact on your particular issue. As such, we would like for you to test this kernel and let us know if it resolves the problems you were having.

Thanks in advance for your testing of this kernel!

~JFo

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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