Hi Jeff, On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > I have checked, and ndiswrapper and the rtl8187 package were uninstalled. > I think that the problem I have may be more basic. > > The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187. I wonder if this is part of the > problem. Could it be that the kernel driver does not support the 8197? > > The attached weblink suggests that this may be the case: > http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2007/09/26/no-more-vista/ > > Does anyone know how I can locate the equivalent code in the kernel and > perhaps perform a similar modification?
(can you please stop top-posting, it makes reading of threads difficult in this mailing list). Your device may still be supported by the driver. The problem may exist with the wpa_supplicant. You could try commenting out the wpa_supplicant in your /etc/conf.d/net file and using net-wireless/wireless-tools instead. Then try again to see if it a)finds the access point (try iwlist wlan0 scanning), b)associates with it (try iwlist wlan0 accesspoint) . Of course you will need to remove WPA from the AP. Should all this succeed you can work your way up from there. PS. I haven't managed to make wpa_supplicant work with my device rt2570usb for more than a year now, but haven't tried recently. -- Regards, Mick
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