ThinkPad 11b/g/n Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Express Adapter III
ThinkPad 11b/g/n Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Express Adapter IIIThis is a Mini-PCI Express WiFi Adapter, supported by a driver downloadable from Realtek and in official kernels from version 2.6.38. Features
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Linux support
This chip is supported by the rtlwifi/rtl8192ce driver, which was introduced in kernel 2.6.38. There are two other options available, a Linux driver available for download from Realtek, or ndiswrapper.
rtlwifi/rtl8192ce
The rtlwifi/rtl8192ce driver which supports this chip is included in kernel 2.6.38-rc1 and later. With earlier kernels you can install the driver from the wireless-next kernel tree or, if you are running a recent stable kernel, build only the drivers from the compat-wireless branch.
See http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download/ for instructions about installing compat-wireless.
Installation on Linux Mint Debian Edition
If you use 2.6.38 or later kernels the rtl8192ce driver is already included in the kernel.
Log of install steps with the 2.6.38+ and 3.x kernels:
sudo aptitude install linux-image-amd64
where you should replace 'amd64' with '686' if you run a 32-bit installation. If in doubt you can run
uname -r
to find your current kernel flavor.
sudo aptitude install firmware-realtek
Now you can either manually load the driver with:
sudo modprobe -v rtl8192ce
or reboot to make the kernel load the driver automatically.
Log of install steps with the 2.6.32 kernel:
This section applies for most or all pre-2.6.38 kernels!
Installed iw package as recommended on compat-wireless page.
Downloaded the latest daily compat-wireless tarball (compat-wireless-2011-02-28) from [1] and built it:
tar xvf compat-wireless-2011-02-28.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless-2011-02-28
./scripts/driver-select rtlwifi
make
sudo make install
sudo make wlunload
sudo modprobe -v rtl8192ce
dmesg said driver loaded but missing firmware
Downloaded rtl8192cfw.bin firmware from linux-firmware git repo [2] and copied it to /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/
from compat-wireless dir:
sudo make wlunload
sudo modprobe -v rtl8192ce
reloaded network-manager service
dmesg still mentioned missing CRDA settings but wireless worked.
Installed wireless-crda package with gdebi-gtk from ubuntu maverick (http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/amd64/wireless-crda/download)
from compat-wireless dir:
sudo make wlunload
sudo modprobe -v rtl8192ce
dmesg now loaded regulatory settings too and wireless still worked.
Realtek Linux driver
The Realtek Linux driver for this chip can be downloaded from the Realtek website
Please note: use of this or a similar driver on Lenovo systems may results in unpredictable fatal crashes on some systems! It's is *not* advised to choose this driver.
ndiswrapper
It may be possible to use the Windows drivers with Ndiswrapper.
ThinkPads this card may be found in
- Edge 13" (Intel)
