Network Driver Issue

hunterjoz1996 · 05-12-2014, 05:51 PM

Hi all. I have an RTL8188ce driver as my WiFi card. I compiled the modules of the drivers that said RTL8188 in them, but I didn't see the ce part of it. Ifconfig didn't show the device either, but it works perfectly in the Live CD. How can I get it to work with my kernel? I did use a Genkernel, so will I need to chroot back in and install firmware? If so, what package?

wraycarr · 05-26-2014, 10:06 AM

At least in the 3.14.4 kernel, the Realtek 8188CE is handled by the rtl8192ce driver.

The RTL8188 firmware is include in the package "linux-firmware".

Merge "linux-firmware" into your Gentoo system. This will install a number of rtl8188 and rtl8192 firmware packages into /lib64/firmware. The kernel driver should choose the correct firmware to load.