Free Driver for RTL8192CE
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Is there a driver for wireless adapters with the chipset RTL8192CE? Thanks!
The best way to find out if there is a free driver is to just try a Trisquel liveCD and try setting up a wireless connection.
You should:
1) Download a Trisquel liveCD. The latest version would be best
2) Boot into liveCD environment
3) Try to setup the wireless network connection
4) Report the status of the wireless card to h-node
There is a free driver but no free firmware for this card. Nothing prevents you from installing this firmware by hand... but your freedom demands, which are those of Trisquel too. That is why the preferred solution is to acquire another Wifi device. The safest solution is to buy it on ThinkPenguin, which is committed to freedom and donate 25% of its profits to Trisquel if you click on this link: http://trisquel.info/sites/countclick.php?url=http://libre.thinkpenguin.com
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Is that why dmesg shows this?
[ 20.761811] hda-intel: Enable sync_write for AMD chipset
[ 20.764643] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc'
[ 20.782734] 0000:04:00.0: Missing Free firmware
[ 20.810543] HDA Intel 0000:00:14.2: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 20.813866] rtl8192ce:rtl92c_download_fw():<0-0> Failed to request firmware!
[ 20.836563] 0000:04:00.0: Missing Free firmware
[ 20.839841] rtl8192ce:rtl92c_download_fw():<0-0> Failed to request firmware!