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Does your laptop have a switch to turn on/off the wireless adapter?
Do you know the make + model of wireless adapter?
If it is too new it may not be supported!
the manual says its a:
Integrated Wi-FiŽ compliant wireless:
10
o Realtek 802.11b/g wireless-LAN
It does have an on and off swtich but its set to on, but the light isn't on which might be the problem, the could it be slack stoping it? any help is greatly appriciated. oh and ive already tried ndiswrapper w/ no luck.
Can you confirm that your wireless adapter works by bootng up in Windows and testing it there?
And also get the model number if possible (eg RTL8185).
Also check: http://rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page
it may help.
Also try the following to see if a driver is being loaded:
lsmod
dmesg
Oh, one more thing, you may want to try one of the Live-CD's (like knoppix)
to see if they recognize your wireless.
Slackware can be a pain to install things by hand.
the manual says its a:
Integrated Wi-FiŽ compliant wireless:
10
o Realtek 802.11b/g wireless-LAN
It does have an on and off swtich but its set to on, but the light isn't on which might be the problem, the could it be slack stoping it? any help is greatly appriciated. oh and ive already tried ndiswrapper w/ no luck.
Hi,
First, when posting data or logs please place them in a vbcode window, either a Quote or Code(#) at the top of the session window. This will make it easier to read through long list(s).
As root from the cli;
Code:
~#uname -r #kernel?
~#dmesg |grep -i eth >mydmesgeth #dmesg for eth device
~#dmesg |grep -i rtl >mydmesgrtl #dmesg for Realtek
~#lspci -vv |grep -i eth >myeth #find eth device(s)
~#lspci -vv |grep -i rtl >mytrl #find the Realtek devices
~#lsmod >mymodules #list modules
~#ifconfig -a #What does the Kernel see?
This will provide us with data to assist you in diagnosis of the problem. Please post the files unedited! You can redirect or copy to a common media be it a flash, floppy or even a shared FAT partition.
I am glad to see this thread since I have same laptop (great Office Depot deal!). I have installed Kubuntu 7.10 and have same lack of wireless. The response to the previous questions are as follows:
and wireless works in vista (so the chip is not dead).
Yes the realtek site has some linux drivers but only a windows driver for this particular chip. ndiswrapper is a package that can allow a windows driver to run under the linux kernel but I've seen posts that this is very hard to do.
More windows info: Port_#0002.Hub_#0003 ver. 6.1089.601.2007
(I have to hand it to Vista for having a nice very easy tool to get this info.)
One more piece of info:
:~$ lsusb
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:8197 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
blake@blake-laptop:~$
(so it is visible via USB)
Last edited by blake5634; 10-27-2007 at 06:10 PM.
Reason: add a fact.
I've got the realtek windows drivers for the chip and installed ndiswrapper ( sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9).
Now, %% sudo ndiswrapper -i net8187b.inf
works, but when checking via diswrapper -l, it returns
driver installed
but NOT displaying that it actually connected to the device... this pattern is the same regardless of the driver OS version (i.e. XP, vs Vista86, vs Win2000).
So, when you typed "ndiswrapper -l" it did not display a driver name?
Hmmm, I would have figured it would say "No driver installed" if nothing was installed!
But any case, it sounds like the driver install didn't click for some reason!
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