Comment 36 for bug 1096989

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Rujinschi Remus (remus-rujinschi) wrote : Re: No wireless support for Lenovo IdeaCentre Q190 (RTL8188E)

I have installed the kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.10-saucy/ and I confirm that I can connect via wifi. Thank you.

# uname -a
Linux box 3.10.0-031000-generic #201306301935 SMP Sun Jun 30 23:36:16 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/*issue*
Ubuntu 13.04 \n \l
# lshw -c network
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 20:16:d8:c3:2d:ae
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8188ee driverversion=3.10.0-031000-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:18 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:c0500000-c0503fff

#lspci -v
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8179 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device 0179
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
        Memory at c0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number (xxxxxxxxxxxx)
        Capabilities: [150] Latency Tolerance Reporting
        Kernel driver in use: rtl8188ee

# lspci -vvv|grep -i Realtek
02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5229 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8179 (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 07)
# iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
          Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off