with the driver fileshare.ro_rtl_drivers.tar.gz,

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW I have to say this is my first foray into Linux and now I see why no one wants to use it. I do not mean to dis a OS and I know how Linux users feel about Microsoft believe me I am right there with you. I have just purchased a T1631 Gateway Laptop it comes with RealTek Wired/Wireless built in. UBUNTU,MANDRIVIA,OPENSUSE all pickup the Wired none pick up the wireless. I run System,Admin, Hardware Testing, in UBUNTU and this is what it says. Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8199 (rev22) for the wireless card. By digging I find I have a RealTek 8187S card built in the only drivers I have found are the 8187B and 8187L neither seem to work. I have dual boot with vista and I am able to get the inf and sys file but even running NDSWrapper it does not help. So why would people use a OS when they cant even get their hardware to work with it. I must says I am more and more impressed with the GUI that UBUNTU and MANDRIVA have but what good is a PORCHE when you dont have a engine.

Well, I said in my last post it was working, but that was short lived.

Well, it's not working with any of the WPA encryptions, and any of the 50 permutations of ndiswrapper, modified, jardins, patched, unmodified, win97 altered and not alterd, xp etc etc Drivers!!!!!!!

1 month trying on my Toshiba A210,

FOR ANYONE STARTING, forget Toshiba and Ubuntu, or but a USB wireless card that is known to work and DON'T WASTE YOUR TIMEEEE!!!!!

MY STUBORNNESS HAS NOT PAID OFF

BUT IF ANYONE has any NEW ideas, I sure would like to know,

COL (CRY out loud)

Mark

I know that Jean does not like ndiswrapper, but I have to repeat that I have this same chip (8187B) and the same laptop (Toshiba A210), and I have tried the drivers you have been working with. I had the same issues others are having. But, I triple boot this laptop (Ubuntu, Slackware, and Suse11) and ALL of them work beautifully with ndiswrapper for this wireless. Now, I have no need for encryption, so I do not use it. But the wireless works great with a strong signal.

If no one is interested in using ndiswrapper, so be it. But if anyone would like me to give them the steps I used, I will be glad to try and help.

Bob

Hi Bob,

As a pilot I need a flexible laptop that can use many wireless connections that I have no control over and most these days are wpa1/2, and ndiswrapper rtl8187b just does not seem to be able to get past wpa, though WEP I am not sure of,

is anyone having success with this on a A210 toshiba???

If so boy I would really appreciate it,

Mark

I had a lot of headache trying to get realtek's 8187b wireless working. I also tried ndiswrapper, and the modified driver. Everything looked OK when using the wireless tools (iwconfig, iwlist, etc.) but for some reason the d*** card still wouldn't associate with any AP.

What finally worked for me (flawlessly, I might add) was to compile/upgrade to the 2.6.27 kernel which now includes support for the 8187b!

oops, multiple post, sorry...

No doubt the modified drivers and ndiswrapper make this card work for some, but I was never able to acheive full functionality on this toshiba laptop until I compiled and installed a new kernel. The 2.6.27 kernel has native support for the rtl8187b, and it is now working perfectly.

I have this card in my Tosiba A215 laptop running 64bit Gentoo (2.6.26-gentoo-r1) it works with the rtl8187b-modified-jadams-2-1-2008.tar.gz driver. I tried the modified win98 and ndiswrapper and the other modified driver from the same page as the jadams one. this was the only one I could get to work. I just: (as root)
to install the driver then:
to bring it up.

then it's just a simple matter of iwconfig and ifconfig to set it up to work with my network.