Re: Toshiba A205-S5809 - Realtek wifi?
I have an older Toshiba, and I had to use the Madwifi driver to make it
work. In addition I had to install the kernel source and kernel headers
for the right kernel in order to compile the driver. It also seems that
whenever the kernel is upgraded -- as it was with the recent upgrade
with Etch, the process has to be repeated.
I just had to do it again in fact.
There have also been some issues with the Gnome network daemon that I
don't understand completely, but to make it work I had to comment out
some things in the file the network manager creates.
I can find the specific steps that I took if you need them, let me know.
Richard
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 13:07 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote:
> well, they were sold out of the a215-s5808 so she went with this unit
> (A205-S5809). installing Debian was quick and far easier than i had
> imagined (given recent snags with the HP). Seriously, this was one of
> the easiest laptop installs i have ever done... and did i mention quick?
>
> other than the modem (which i don't have a way to test) I need to get
> the wireless going. it uses a Realtek driver and i haven't been able to
> pinpoint which one i need nor a great linux candidate. i am not opposed
> to using ndiswrapper, but i need to know which driver to install.
>
> can anyone help with this? so far dmesg doesn't show any wlan devices
> and i _really_ need this part to work for her.
>
> thanks again.
> Preston
>
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