Re: Toshiba A205-S5809 - Realtek wifi?
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Preston Boyington
<preston.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Paolo wrote:
> <snipped>
>
> >
> > 1. lspci -vvv
> > 2. lookup vendor's tech specs/website
> > 3. check www.realtek.com.tw
> > 4. check the *mobile*linux* sites for other's experiences
> >
> > Realtek's wifi chips are not listed in pci_ids in kernel, and they're used to
> > provide blob good only for some ref. kernel version they used to compile it.
> > Very likely your better option will be ndiswrapper.
> >
>
> ok. after a long process of searching for all the ndiswrapper drivers
> and _still_ trying to get the wireless card to show in dmesg or lspci i
> decided to put it off for a bit. in tinkering with some other things i
> issued "lsusb" and saw "8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp" listed.
>
> immediately i jumped around the 'net and somehow found the page:
>
> http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/rtl8187b/
I fail to get that work. Which kernel are you using? I'm using
2.6.24 (amd64) but I couldn't compile the module.
Manu
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