Author Topic: thinkpad X100e - do i need to build wireless driver?(solved)  (Read 1200 times)

Offline joec

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I can't get the wireless on my Thinkpad X100e to work with any of the provided drivers.

Control center (and lspci) say that I am dealing with: RTL 8192SE Wireless Lan Controller (rev 10)

On another distro a guy with the same problem ended up buildng  a driver : http://sites.google.com/site/linuxonthinkpadx100e/

Is this necessary and would this work for PClinuxOS? Would it be an appropriate package request?
« Last Edit: June 02, 2010, 03:28:52 PM by joec »

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Re: thinkpad X100e - do i need to build wireless driver?
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2010, 07:18:56 AM »

Joec,

the apps you need and the firmware (iirc) are in the repo

Use an ethernet connection for the first update and then install the apps

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Re: thinkpad X100e - do i need to build wireless driver?
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2010, 07:20:19 AM »
I can't get the wireless on my Thinkpad X100e to work with any of the provided drivers.

Control center (and lspci) say that I am dealing with: RTL 8192SE Wireless Lan Controller (rev 10)

On another distro a guy with the same problem ended up buildng  a driver : http://sites.google.com/site/linuxonthinkpadx100e/

Is this necessary and would this work for PClinuxOS? Would it be an appropriate package request?


The dkms-r8192se-0015.0127.2010-1pclos2010.noarch.rpm kernel drivers package contains device drivers for the Realtek RTL8191SE/RTL8192SE WiFi cards and should already be on the 2010.1 KDE CD release. If you are using another PCLinuxOS version then you would need to install the above referenced package from the Synaptic Package manager through a wired connection.






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Re: thinkpad X100e - do i need to build wireless driver?
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2010, 03:27:59 PM »
thank you. and it works  --yippeee ;D