Re: Toshiba A205-S5809 - Realtek wifi?

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:07:12PM -0600, Preston Boyington wrote:
> (A205-S5809). installing Debian was quick and far easier than i hadt
...
> can anyone help with this? so far dmesg doesn't show any wlan devices

1. lspci -vvv
2. lookup vendor's tech specs/website
3. check www.realtek.com.tw
4. check the *mobile*linux* sites for other's experiences

Realtek's wifi chips are not listed in pci_ids in kernel, and they're used to provide blob good only for some ref. kernel version they used to compile it. Very likely your better option will be ndiswrapper.

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