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#1 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » realtek wireless 8179 problems » 2014-09-07 01:53:12

I booted the kernel but nothing changed. The new driver is there but I think the hardware is not recognized as a wireless device.

#3 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » realtek wireless 8179 problems » 2014-09-07 00:14:54

Thanks for the help. I was hoping it was just a kernal upgrade. This post
http://askubuntu.com/questions/337785/w … -c55-a5281 says that

If this is your device, it is covered by the very new driver rtl8188ee:

Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8179]

If this helps me can I get the terminal commands to make it happen?

#4 Help & Support (Stable) » realtek wireless 8179 problems » 2014-09-06 15:19:57

lunaticMonk
Replies: 9

I'm having problems getting my wifi up. The wifi key on my keyboard is in the off position and will not toggle, I guess thats what the rfkill hard block entry means. What do I do?

cbang@cbang:~$ uname -rv
3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3
cbang@cbang:~$ lspci -knn | grep -EiA2 net
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8179] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:197d]
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:22cd]
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
cbang@cbang:~$ dmesg|grep -Ei 'wlan|firmw|dhc'
[    0.264762] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[    0.373613] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness
[    0.374929] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness
[    1.735165] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[    1.735172] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[    1.764724] sdhci-pci 0000:00:14.7: SDHCI controller found [1022:7813] (rev 1)
[    1.766030] mmc0: SDHCI controller on PCI [0000:00:14.7] using ADMA
[    2.878573] platform microcode: firmware: agent aborted loading amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam16h.bin (not found?)
[    2.885313] platform microcode: firmware: agent aborted loading amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam16h.bin (not found?)
[   48.438470] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness
[  326.084387] [Firmware Bug]: battery: (dis)charge rate invalid.
[  504.772374] usbcore: registered new interface driver rndis_wlan
cbang@cbang:~$ sudo apt-get install rfkill
[sudo] password for cbang: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
rfkill is already the newest version.
rfkill set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  python-wicd wicd-daemon wicd-gtk
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
cbang@cbang:~$ sudo rfkill list
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: yes

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