Vincent, like you, I had issues getting a RealTek chipset working with Ubuntu 5.10 (the latest). Mine is a PCMCIA WI-FI by Linksys, identified as RTL8180L. I will keep an eye on this thread to see if you find a resolution for the RealTek chipset on Ubuntu.
FYI, a couple of weeks ago I purchased an Air Link 101 (Frys house brand) on sale @ about US$20. The card has an Atheros AR5212 802.11abg chipset. Beware, I've been advised Frys & others change chipsets all the time. But the box had "Atheros" written all over it, so I was comfortable. I think Frys had PCI boards with Atheros chipsets competitively priced too. As far as Ubuntu 5.10: After the "lspci" command recognized & identified the Atheros PCMCIA card. Ubuntu configured the Atheros chipset, there was no need to enter commands.
From the menu; System / Administration / Networking / Wireless connection
/ Properties / Enable this connection / choose a network / I chose DHCP. Incidentally, SLAX Live Distro 5.0.6 has Atheros configured by default too. But Ubuntu seems more solid to me. Warm regards, Chuck Langenberg
Vincent L. Damewood said...
...I'd like to get WiFi working on this [Ubuntu] system... ...[the chipset] identified as: Realtek RTL8185 PCI/Cardbus 802.11g 54M Wireless LAN Network Interface Card... _______________________________________________ PDXLUG (a Portland Linux user group) mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug & #orlug
