Realtek wireless make/install help(Solved)

[Zombifish]

I downloading the realtek wireless driver form main site. It comes in a .tar.bz2. I don't know how to make, install, or just how to work this type of file. I instruction dumbed down a bit. I can't find the help I'm looking for. Thank you for you time!

zFish

[Zombifish]

Some extra info to someone who can help me get my wireless working. Not picking up a signal at all. Any help with do, Thank you.

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 14h Processor Root Complex
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Wrestler [Radeon HD 6320]
00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Wrestler HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6250/6310]
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 11)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:14.7 SD Host controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH SD Flash Controller
00:15.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:15.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:16.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:16.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 0 (rev 43)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 6
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 5
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 7
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)


[Zombifish]

Well I figure out how to install the realtek wireless driver. I'm happy to say I have my wireless working with linux. I guess those that have had an issue. Here is what I did
In your terminal so you can change to super user

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 sudo su

Then I right clicked the file, go down to root actions, select (Open terminal here). It should have your info in a red color, at least for me then you

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make

When that is done

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make install

Wait for this to finish

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reboot

How I did it. But I'm still learning. Happy I learned something today and hope it helps for someone else.

zFish

[catweazel]

Well I figure out how to install the realtek wireless driver.

Well done.

[chemicalfan]

Nice work, not quite right though. The "standard" way is to do the "make" first, then the "sudo su" (which you can do in one command as "su -c make install"). You don't really want to compile packages as root/superuser, as you can sometimes get issues. You don't need to be root to unpack to tar file either (as long as you unpack into a subfolder of /home - this is good practice too)