Hello....
I have a problem with mi wireless connection... I tried using 'ndiswrapper' and I installed the driver for my card (Realtek RTL 8187SE' and at the moment I don't have wireless... My 'eth0' connection works perfectly, but my 'wlan0' connection doesn't work...

My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L505D-SP6905R...

If I type 'lspci' I receive the next message:

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gilberto@gilberto-Satellite-L505D:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge Alternate
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3c)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M860G [Mobility Radeon 4100]
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8187SE Wireless LAN Controller (rev 22)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)

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If I type 'iwconfig', I receive the next message:

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lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 802.11b/g Mode:Managed Frequency=2.422 GHz
Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Retry:on RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

vboxnet0 no wireless extensions.
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The last one is because I installed 'VirtualBox'....

If I type 'rfkill list' nothing appears (After execute 'sudo rfkill unblock all' ) ....

I read posts on Internet and all the people say that 'ndiswrapper' is a good option to this problem, but as I said it doesn't work for me.... I installed the driver 'rtl-8187se' for windows 7 (Because my Laptop had Windows 7 before I install Ubuntu 10.10)...

At the moment, I've just re-installed Ubuntu 10.10...

I think that maybe the problem is that my wireless card is 'off' (Maybe)... But I don't know how to turn it on in Linux (I tried 'sudo ifconfig wlan0 up' and nothing happen)... Because I installed Ubuntu in the whole disk...

I type again: 'sudo rfkill unblock all' and then: 'rfkill list' and nothing happen...

I don't know if I have to install Windows again and share the disk with Ubuntu, and turn the wireless on from Windows to work in Ubuntu (I don't know, I think....)

Somebody help me... Thanks in advance...

The driver is in the kernel since 2.6.29,but you try in your kernel too

[edit] Kernel

The driver might be in staging so you may need to "unmask" it
Linux Kernel Configuration: Enabling staging and module
[*] Networking support --->[*] Wireless --->[*] Wireless extensions
Device drivers --->[*] Staging drivers --->
[ ] Exclude Staging drivers from being built
<*> RealTek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN NIC driver

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Well... I just install again Windows with Ubuntu, and I turned the wireless on in Windows... Then I entered to Ubuntu, and now I've got Wireless....

Thanks anyway for your attention to my thread...

I hadn't seen the post until I reinstalled Windows...

THANKS....

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The titled "Solved" is very misleading.

You should have said "failed to solve and had to reinstall".