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Old 10-28-2007, 10:46 PM   #16
blake5634
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Realtek 8187B seems to work now...

The linux driver for Realtex 8187B available at

http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blo...ista/#comments

compiles with many warnings, but Knetworkmanager now shows the wireless network and the one locked network that I can reach from here. For now I consider this great success. One problem is that the light on the laptop edge which shows wireless active is still off, but this seems minor at this point. Thanks datanorth!
 
Old 11-01-2007, 10:41 PM   #17
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compiles with many warnings, but Knetworkmanager now shows the wireless network and the one locked network that I can reach from here. For now I consider this great success. One problem is that the light on the laptop edge which shows wireless active is still off, but this seems minor at this point. Thanks datanorth!
Welcome. :-)
 
Old 11-03-2007, 08:00 PM   #18
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I guess I jumped the gun a bit on declaring victory! At that point I did see a local network show up in knetworkmanager but couldn't connect since it was pw protected. This afternoon I went to a shop where there were several available networks, but despite about an hour of trying things I couldn't get knetworkmanager to show any networks at all. According to iwlist, the card was working and could see many networks but I couldn't get the gui to show them. Any ideas??

This shows that I the card was up and working:

Code:
blake@blake-laptop:/etc/init.d$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:1C:B3:AF:03:36
                    ESSID:"APPLE NETWORK"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:3
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54
                    Quality:14  Signal level:0  Noise level:81
                    Extra: Last beacon: 1575ms ago
          Cell 02 - Address: 00:15:05:1E:96:DF
                    ESSID:"SunneyCafe"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:5
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 22 24 36 48 54
                    Quality:14  Signal level:0  Noise level:53
                    Extra: Last beacon: 721ms ago
          Cell 03 - Address: 00:18:F8:BB:FE:BF
                    ESSID:"gladius"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:6
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54
                    Quality:14  Signal level:0  Noise level:50
                    Extra: Last beacon: 512ms ago
          Cell 04 - Address: 00:19:E4:77:E8:71
                    ESSID:"uhardware"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:6
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54
                    Quality:14  Signal level:0  Noise level:70
                    Extra: Last beacon: 547ms ago
          Cell 05 - Address: 00:14:95:87:70:39
                    ESSID:"2WIRE102"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:6
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54
                    Quality:14  Signal level:0  Noise level:99
                    Extra: Last beacon: 634ms ago
          Cell 06 - Address: 00:0F:3D:5B:1B:BC
                    ESSID:"studio"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:6
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 9 11 6 12 18 24 36 48 54
                    Quality:14  Signal level:0  Noise level:40
                    Extra: Last beacon: 929ms ago
          Cell 07 - Address: 00:1C:10:50:3C:50
                    ESSID:"linksys"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:6
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54
                    Quality:14  Signal level:0  Noise level:43
                    Extra: Last beacon: 923ms ago
          Cell 08 - Address: 00:1C:10:9E:15:03
                    ESSID:"kotakecil"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:6
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54
                    Quality:14  Signal level:0  Noise level:74
                    Extra: Last beacon: 926ms ago
          Cell 09 - Address: 00:18:3F:E8:4C:71
                    ESSID:"2WIRE161"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:6
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54
                    Quality:14  Signal level:0  Noise level:44
                    Extra: Last beacon: 990ms ago
          Cell 10 - Address: 00:0F:B3:46:E4:47
                    ESSID:"ACTIONTEC"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:7
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 22 24 36 48 54
                    Quality:14  Signal level:0  Noise level:13
                    Extra: Last beacon: 740ms ago
          Cell 11 - Address: 00:0F:B3:72:78:49
                    ESSID:"SmokinDicks"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:9
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 22 24 36 48 54
                    Quality:14  Signal level:0  Noise level:16
                    Extra: Last beacon: 46ms ago
          Cell 12 - Address: 00:11:95:C8:04:E3
                    ESSID:"seattlewifi"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:11
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 9 11 6 12 18 24 36 48 54
                    Quality:13  Signal level:0  Noise level:61
                    Extra: Last beacon: 6ms ago
          Cell 13 - Address: 00:20:E0:0E:24:2A
                    ESSID:"ACTIONTEC"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:1
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:11 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11
                    Quality:14  Signal level:0  Noise level:56
                    Extra: Last beacon: 1559ms ago
Here's some system log info which seems to show problems with the driver (I think this corresponds to running /etc/init.d/networking restart.

Code:
Nov  3 15:30:44 blake-laptop kernel: [  158.800000] eth0: link down
Nov  3 15:30:44 blake-laptop kernel: [  158.808000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Nov  3 15:32:57 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.000000] r8187: no version for "ieee80211_reset_queue" found: kernel tainted.
Nov  3 15:32:57 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.008000] 
Nov  3 15:32:57 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.008000] Linux kernel driver for RTL8187/RTL8187B based WLAN cards
Nov  3 15:32:57 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.008000] Copyright (c) 2004-2005, Andrea Merello
Nov  3 15:32:57 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.008000] rtl8187: Initializing module
Nov  3 15:32:57 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.008000] rtl8187: Wireless extensions version 22
Nov  3 15:32:57 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.008000] rtl8187: Initializing proc filesystem
Nov  3 15:32:57 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.012000] rtl8187: Reported EEPROM chip is a 93c46 (1Kbit)
Nov  3 15:32:57 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.272000] rtl8187: Card MAC address is 00:16:44:17:b0:6c
Nov  3 15:32:57 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.612000] rtl8187: WW:Going dooh. >%%^||
Nov  3 15:32:57 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.612000] rtl8187: PAPE from CONFIG2: 0
Nov  3 15:32:57 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.612000] rtl8187: Driver probe completed
Nov  3 15:32:57 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.612000] 
Nov  3 15:32:57 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.612000] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
Nov  3 15:32:58 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.836000] rtl8187: Card successfully reset
Nov  3 15:32:58 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.836000] This is RTL8187B Reset procedure
Nov  3 15:33:06 blake-laptop kernel: [  301.216000] WIRELESS_MODE_G
Nov  3 15:33:06 blake-laptop kernel: [  301.224000] Set chan.call ieee80211_start_bss.in start bss call check.<6>ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

Nov  3 15:34:35 blake-laptop kernel: [  390.444000] rtl8180_close process 
Nov  3 15:34:35 blake-laptop kernel: [  390.444000] rtl8180_down process 
Nov  3 15:34:35 blake-laptop kernel: [  390.452000] RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:34:35 blake-laptop kernel: [  390.452000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ffffff8d) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:34:35 blake-laptop last message repeated 5 times
Nov  3 15:34:35 blake-laptop kernel: [  390.456000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ffffff8d) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:34:35 blake-laptop last message repeated 7 times
Nov  3 15:34:35 blake-laptop kernel: [  390.456000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (fffffffe) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:34:36 blake-laptop kernel: [  390.456000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (fffffffe) <6>rtl8187: Card successfully reset
Nov  3 15:34:36 blake-laptop kernel: [  390.752000] This is RTL8187B Reset procedure
Nov  3 15:34:44 blake-laptop kernel: [  399.144000] WIRELESS_MODE_G
Nov  3 15:34:44 blake-laptop kernel: [  399.152000] Set chan.call ieee80211_start_bss.in start bss call check.<6>ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Nov  3 15:36:01 blake-laptop kernel: [  476.256000] rtl8180_close process 
Nov  3 15:36:01 blake-laptop kernel: [  476.256000] rtl8180_down process 
Nov  3 15:36:01 blake-laptop kernel: [  476.264000] RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:36:01 blake-laptop kernel: [  476.264000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ffffff8d) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:36:01 blake-laptop last message repeated 11 times
Nov  3 15:36:01 blake-laptop kernel: [  476.268000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ffffff8d) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:36:01 blake-laptop kernel: [  476.268000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ffffff8d) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:36:01 blake-laptop kernel: [  476.268000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (fffffffe) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:36:01 blake-laptop kernel: [  476.268000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (fffffffe) <6>rtl8187: Card successfully reset
Nov  3 15:36:01 blake-laptop kernel: [  476.572000] This is RTL8187B Reset procedure
Nov  3 15:36:10 blake-laptop kernel: [  484.972000] WIRELESS_MODE_G
Nov  3 15:36:10 blake-laptop kernel: [  484.980000] Set chan.call ieee80211_start_bss.in start bss call check.<6>ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Nov  3 15:45:01 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1016.312000] rtl8180_close process 
Nov  3 15:45:01 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1016.312000] rtl8180_down process 
Nov  3 15:45:01 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1016.320000] RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:45:01 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1016.320000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ffffff8d) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:45:01 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1016.320000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ffffff8d) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:45:01 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1016.324000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ffffff8d) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:45:01 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1016.324000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ffffff8d) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:45:01 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1016.324000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (fffffffe) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:45:01 blake-laptop last message repeated 10 times
Nov  3 15:45:01 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1016.324000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (fffffffe) <6>rtl8187: Card successfully reset
Nov  3 15:45:01 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1016.604000] This is RTL8187B Reset procedure
Nov  3 15:45:10 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1025.000000] WIRELESS_MODE_G
Nov  3 15:45:10 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1025.008000] Set chan.call ieee80211_start_bss.in start bss call check.<6>ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Nov  3 15:58:03 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1798.108000] rtl8180_close process 
Nov  3 15:58:03 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1798.108000] rtl8180_down process 
Nov  3 15:58:03 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1798.136000] RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:58:03 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1798.136000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ffffff8d) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:58:03 blake-laptop last message repeated 2 times
Nov  3 15:58:03 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1798.136000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (fffffffe) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:58:03 blake-laptop last message repeated 11 times
Nov  3 15:58:03 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1798.140000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (fffffffe) <6>rtl8187: Card successfully reset
Nov  3 15:58:03 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1798.436000] This is RTL8187B Reset procedure
Nov  3 15:58:12 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1806.816000] WIRELESS_MODE_G
Nov  3 15:58:12 blake-laptop kernel: [ 1806.824000] Set chan.call ieee80211_start_bss.in start bss call check.<6>ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Nov  3 16:05:39 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2254.468000] rtl8180_close process 
Nov  3 16:05:39 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2254.468000] rtl8180_down process 
Nov  3 16:05:39 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2254.476000] RX Status Error!
Nov  3 16:05:39 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2254.476000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ffffff8d) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 16:05:39 blake-laptop last message repeated 8 times
Nov  3 16:05:39 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2254.480000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ffffff8d) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 16:05:39 blake-laptop last message repeated 2 times
Nov  3 16:05:39 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2254.480000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (fffffffe) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 16:05:39 blake-laptop last message repeated 2 times
Nov  3 16:05:40 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2254.480000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (fffffffe) <6>rtl8187: Card successfully reset
Nov  3 16:05:40 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2254.772000] This is RTL8187B Reset procedure
Nov  3 16:05:48 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2263.156000] WIRELESS_MODE_G
Nov  3 16:05:48 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2263.164000] Set chan.call ieee80211_start_bss.in start bss call check.<6>ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Nov  3 16:07:47 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2381.992000] rtl8180_close process 
Nov  3 16:07:47 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2381.992000] rtl8180_down process 
Nov  3 16:07:47 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2382.000000] RX Status Error!
Nov  3 16:07:47 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2382.000000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ffffff8d) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 16:07:47 blake-laptop last message repeated 4 times
Nov  3 16:07:47 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2382.000000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (fffffffe) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 16:07:47 blake-laptop last message repeated 3 times
Nov  3 16:07:47 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2382.004000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (fffffffe) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 16:07:47 blake-laptop last message repeated 5 times
Nov  3 16:07:47 blake-laptop kernel: [ 2382.004000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (fffffffe) <6>ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:05:07.0 disabled
 
Old 11-05-2007, 02:26 PM   #19
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Quote:
Originally Posted by blake5634 View Post
I guess I jumped the gun a bit on declaring victory! At that point I did see a local network show up in knetworkmanager but couldn't connect since it was pw protected. This afternoon I went to a shop where there were several available networks, but despite about an hour of trying things I couldn't get knetworkmanager to show any networks at all. According to iwlist, the card was working and could see many networks but I couldn't get the gui to show them. Any ideas??

This shows that I the card was up and working:

<snippy>

Here's some system log info which seems to show problems with the driver (I think this corresponds to running /etc/init.d/networking restart.

Code:
Nov  3 15:32:57 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.000000] r8187: no version for "ieee80211_reset_queue" found: kernel tainted.
Hmm. That's odd. Is ieee80211-rtl module being OFP? May want to recompile the iee80211* drivers (just ./makedrv).

Quote:
Originally Posted by blake5634 View Post
Code:
Nov  3 15:32:57 blake-laptop kernel: [  292.612000] rtl8187: WW:Going dooh. >%%^||
That's good.

Quote:
Originally Posted by blake5634 View Post
Code:
Nov  3 15:34:35 blake-laptop kernel: [  390.444000] rtl8180_close process 
Nov  3 15:34:35 blake-laptop kernel: [  390.444000] rtl8180_down process 
Nov  3 15:34:35 blake-laptop kernel: [  390.452000] RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:34:35 blake-laptop kernel: [  390.452000] RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ffffff8d) RX Status Error!
Nov  3 15:34:35 blake-laptop last message repeated 5 times
Try running wlan0up, then iwconfig/dhclient by hand.
 
Old 09-04-2008, 02:45 PM   #20
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2.6.27 kernel has support for Realtek 8187b
If you are willing to do so, compiling and installing a new kernel should solve all your problems with the rtl8187b.
 
Old 12-30-2008, 09:03 AM   #21
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OK, I've been working on ndiswrapper based on

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...er/Ndiswrapper

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).
IM HAVING THIS EXACT SAME PROBLEM!
lets hope reading on tells me more...
 
Old 12-30-2008, 09:05 AM   #22
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If you are willing to do so, compiling and installing a new kernel should solve all your problems with the rtl8187b.
im running ubuntu 8.10 with 2.6.27-7-generic and it doesnt work with rtl8187b
 
  


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