Re: Toshiba A205-S5809 - Realtek wifi?

Paolo wrote:
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>
> 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.
>

ok. after a long process of searching for all the ndiswrapper drivers and _still_ trying to get the wireless card to show in dmesg or lspci i decided to put it off for a bit. in tinkering with some other things i issued "lsusb" and saw "8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp" listed.

immediately i jumped around the 'net and somehow found the page:

http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/rtl8187b/

which has a modified version of the realtek driver available. please note that while it did work, i will continue to hope that better support will come in the near future for this card.

so the wireless works and i am busying myself with streamlining some things. thanks everyone for the input, i am sure to throw something else your way soon. :D

Preston

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