Realtek 8191SE/8192SE LXDE wireless connection working

[Phantom Lobell]

If anyone has a laptop with the Realtek 8191SE/8192SE wireless adapter and you install PCLinuxOS LXDE you will find that you don't even have an option to configure a wireless connection in PCC. If you open Network & Internet, then Network Center, you'll see only wired or eth0. No wlan0 to configure. If you go to Setup a new network interface and try to setup a wireless connection you'll encounter the ndiswrapper routine and no other option.
The solution, at least for me, was simple. Temporarily connect a wired eth0, go into Synaptic and search for realtek. You'll see the package dkms-8192se. Install this dynamic kernel module re-boot and you'll now see a wlan0 in the Network & Internet, Network center of PCC!! Simply configure your wireless network with it's SSID and key and voila! You now have wireless access in the LXDE version of PCLinuxOS. Disconnect your eth 0 as you don't need it anymore.
Strangely enough no other version of PCLinuxOS proved this troublesome for the Realtek 8191SE/8192SE. I have setup a laptop with 4 versions of PCLinuxOS (KDE,XFCE,LXDE and e17) in a multi-boot configuration and only LXDE gave me any trouble with the wireless setup. 

[Phantom Lobell]

The advice I wrote above no longer applies. All one needs to do now is get the temporary eth 0 cable connected for Internet access and then simply do a search in synaptic for rtl8192se-firmware. Install this disconnect the wired eth0 and re-boot. That's it. Worked on my HP G62-notebook.

[AussieBear]

Phantom,

Just goes to show that searching the repository is ALWAYS a good thing.

I bought a smicky super-mini USB wifi adapter with the 8192 chipset family and
found that it did not work. I went through all the work to get the
driver code, compile, and installed by hand to get it to work.

If I simply would have looked in the repository FIRST, I could have
saved myself a couples hours of work.

Lesson learned. The PCLinuxOS repository is a useful resource if you
take to time to search it!   

Kindest Regards,

AussieBear.