Realtek RTL8187B wont show in hardy

jessica_lilly · 03-21-2008, 07:34 PM

hello,

i have just upgraded today to hardy and i want to know how to get my wireless network card working but i have hit some problems. i have so far had to get ndiswrapper as a last option so i installed that and when that was installed i got the windows 98 driver for it and installed that and probed it etc...

i carnt seem to use it the network manager isnt picking it up

when i type lsusb i get this:

Code:

Bus 007 Device 003: ID 0bda:8197 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

and when i do dmesg i get:

Code:

[ 2390.911041] ndiswrapper version 1.52 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
[ 2390.918934] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper

when i do ndiswrapper -l i get:

Code:

net8187b : driver installed
	device (0BDA:8197) present

please help
thanks

Brian1 · 03-22-2008, 12:22 PM

Not knowing the kernel but there is module now present in the 2.6.23 kernel tree and newer called rtl8187. If you running a new kernel you can see if it is built and present with this command.
/sbin/modprobe rtl8187

If not I would attempt to install this module or new kernel and set it for compiling it.

Brian

jessica_lilly · 03-22-2008, 04:35 PM

ok thankyou i have fixed it i used ndiswrapper

Brian1 · 03-22-2008, 07:30 PM

Glad to see you have it working.

Brian