Okay that did not work either.


Essentially there is no way to get Fedora 14 working with the RTL8192 wireless chipset.

All possible techniques fail. The chipset simply is not compatible. No drivers will install. It just doesn't work.

Anyone who is looking at getting a Toshiba Satellite to use with Linux... don't. It's way too much hassle even if there is a way to make this work. The drivers absolutely won't compile no matter what you do. Get an external wifi adapter from a supported vendor and leave the realtek stuff alone.

Worse yet when I tried to recompile the kernel to fix this problem it screwed up my friend's Windows install PLUS it would not boot back into Linux because of a kernel panic of some sort.

Fortunately I had a backup of his windows OS and restored Windows but the Linux install had to go byebye.

In short: not only can you NOT get the rtl819* chipset working with Linux but in trying to do so you run the additional risk of a mysterious kernel panic, damaging another OS's ability to boot, and generally screwing up the crap out of your machine.

Sigh. I've never met a Linux problem I could not solve with enough research...

I've been able to compile ( rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0018.1025.2010 ) without issues on F13 kernel 2.6.34.7-63.fc13.x86_64 .. I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.6.34.7-66.fc13.x86_64 and downloaded rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz and now I'm having the same compile issue "make[3]: *** No rule to make target `missing-syscalls'. Stop." ..

I'll see that this error is actually coming from the Makefile included in the kernel.

grep -n "missing-syscalls" /usr/src/kernels/2.6.34.7-66.fc13.x86_64/Makefile
991: $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=. missing-syscalls

I'll continue tracking this down..

-Tony

Don't waste your time attempting to configure on-board RTL wireless cards for a Toshiba Satellite running Fedora-12, it is a pursuit in futility. My two fold solution is both economical and modular. I've successfully employed a simple low cost BELKIN USB wireless adapter running FEDORA-12 from a 320-GB SEAGATE USB drive. Runs efficient enough for average users without the risk of clobbering a dual boot internal drive trying to run make files etc on RTL chip-sets.

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If anybody is still struggling with this issue, I found this to work for me, with limited success, ie; cant switch the wireless card on and off, just stays on... I am using Fedora 14 with the 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686 kernel... Hope this helps somebody

http://www.linwik.com/wiki/using+the...with+fedora+12