Wednesday, April 13, 2011

openSUSE and the rtl8192se wireless chip

I installed reinstalled my netbook (an asus 1201n) again to try another linux distribution. This time i tried openSUSE. Very similair to fedora opensuse didn't inlucde the right drivers so i had to install them by myself. This is how i did it.

Get the driver from realtek website.
Then install the missing depencies.
After that you can compile the driver, install it an ensure the module is loaded and your card is recognized

zypper install automake make kernel-desktop-devel kernel-syms gcc
make   
make install
modprobe r8192se_pci
iwconfig