Having bad luck with preinstalled Win7 on my new Lenovo T510, I decided to install Suse 11.4. Everything worked out-of the box, except for wireless card. lspci told me the card's name: [Realtek semiconductors etc... RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller (rev 10)] hwinfo doesn't list it. Is there any method to make that work?
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I had the same problem with my netbook (no kernel driver for RTL9191SEvB) running Debian. First make sure that you have the realtek firmwares installed (in Debian the package is If that fails, just go to http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=48&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true#2302 and grab the Linux driver. Extract it using your regular archive tool, open a terminal inside that extracted directory and run (as root):
(Yes the driver is for RTL8192 but works really fine with this card too, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609784). That's it, your card should be running. If the driver doesn't load automatically at startup, you can add a | |||
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