Re: Wireless drivers for MSI Wind U100

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:38:59 -0700
Arthur Barlow <arthurbarlow@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Celejar wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:28:01 -0700
> > Arthur Barlow <arthurbarlow@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> I recently bought an MSI Wind U100 notebook with Windows XP and 
> >> partitioned the hard drive in half so I could also run GNU/Linux.  The 
> >> notebook uses a Realtek RT8101E chipset for it's WLAN.  Does anyone know 
> >>   if there is an open source driver for this chip?
> > 
> > Please post the relevant lspci output.
> > 
> > Celejar

...

> lspci is as follows:

...

> 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E 
> PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8199 
> (rev 02)

You have confused the LAN with the WLAN; the 8101 is the LAN, and the
8199 is the WLAN.  The 8199 is apparently a variant of the 8187, and
*may* work with the 818x open source drivers:

Here's a page about a similar MSI Wind machine:

http://forums.msiwind.net/general-discussion/realtek-8199-linux-wireless-t1591.html

and see also these:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/ubuntu-8.04-realtek-8187-on-tishiba-a215-s7414-652951/page3.html#post3233929
http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/
http://rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page

Celejar
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