On Mon, August 4, 2008 10:20 am, Pablo Manalastas wrote: > Aneurin D wrote (to my blog): > >> i have 8.04.01 on my wind (actually a dual-boot) and have >> already tried building the realtek drivers but i still >> couldn't get my wireless working. using ndiswrapper on >> the windows drivers also failed me. or i am not doing it >> properly since i cant figure out how to manually add a >> wlan in ubuntu. they say ubuntu was for beginners, so >> does that rate me as stupid? > >> ciao! > > > Aneurin: Try to get the source code of the mac80211 version of the > realtek-8187 > driver from sourceforge: http://rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net/wiki/Mac80211. On my > Neo Empriva 540SVB, only this source code compiles cleanly and works under > Debian (but not under Fedora). I think this might work under Ubuntu, which is, > after all, a Debian derivative. Good luck. >
hi doc, the mac drivers on that page is no longer available but i need to check the kernel version on 8.04.1 since it is stated there that the code will be merged to the 2.6.23 version. that is wishful thinking since the wifi is not detected last time I checked. i am using the wifi driver instructions here -> http://wiki.msiwind.net/index.php/Ubuntu_8.04_Hardy_Heron#Option_2:_Compiling_Drivers_for_the_Supplied_Wireless_Card loading ndiswrapper states the driver is present but i can't figure out how to configure a new WLAN if it can't detect it. i might end up doing it the CLI way. ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back" Anuerin G. Diaz Registered Linux User #246176 Friendly Linux Board @ http://mandrivausers.org/index.php http://ramfree17.net/capsule , when you absolutely have nothing else better to do _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
