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    Re: HOWTO: Get RTL8187B (ID: 8197) Working. Step by Step

    Quote Originally Posted by tatterdemalion View Post
    Thank you for the hint.
    I had done it before and it seemed to work. But this time on another laptop, (same model as mine) it did not.

    Here is the last lines of make command:
    Code:
    ibertas/if_sdio.o
    /home/taner/Desktop/compat-wireless-2009-04-16/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_sdio.c:53: error: ‘SDIO_DEVICE_ID_MARVELL_8688WLAN’ undeclared here (not in a function)
    make[4]: *** [/home/taner/Desktop/compat-wireless-2009-04-16/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_sdio.o] Error 1
    make[3]: *** [/home/taner/Desktop/compat-wireless-2009-04-16/drivers/net/wireless/libertas] Error 2
    make[2]: *** [/home/taner/Desktop/compat-wireless-2009-04-16/drivers/net/wireless] Error 2
    make[1]: *** [_module_/home/taner/Desktop/compat-wireless-2009-04-16] Error 2
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic'
    make: *** [modules] Error 2
    Does it make any sense to anyone out there?
    Hey
    It's been a while since I've been on here.

    You need to instal the package "build-essintal" to build the drivers. Then it should just work
    Don't forget to modprobe rtl8187 to see if it worked

    HP Pavilion DV3505ea Laptop: Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 @ 2.0Ghz - 2GB RAM - 160GB HDD - nVidia GeForce 9300M GS - Intel 5100AGN Wireless

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    Re: HOWTO: Get RTL8187B (ID: 8197) Working. Step by Step

    Thanks Ropechoborra, the driver you mentionned works quite well indeed!

    Edit : in fact, it works fantastically well !
    Last edited by ElVirolo; April 30th, 2009 at 12:35 PM.

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    Question Re: HOWTO: Get RTL8187B (ID: 8197) Working. Step by Step

    Quote Originally Posted by ElVirolo View Post
    Thanks Ropechoborra, the driver you mentioned works quite well indeed!

    Edit : in fact, it works fantastically well !
    I installed the driver(s) and it/they worked as well over here...sort of. After blacklisting the old ones and then makeing, make installing, and then rebooting, I lost wireless connections (even after changing preferences in wicd to wlan1 instead of wlan0). I attempted to fix it a few times, but then gave up and went to bed. This morning, I woke up and turned on my computer expecting to return to the fixing attempt only to find that my wireless now worked, and exceptionally well at that. However, after about 15 minutes, it went away. With the old drivers, my wireless was always on. With these, the card seems to respond to the wireless switch built into the laptop (the wifi light on the laptop is on; prev. it wasn't) Unfortunately my switch is broken and stuck in the off position On the other hand, I've now had the computer on for the past hour without losing internet. Needless to say, I'm a little confused and I'm not sure if it's "working" yet. Also, here's dmesg |grep 818:

    Code:
    [    0.548181] CPU1: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56 stepping 02
    [   13.924167] Linux kernel driver for RTL8187/RTL8187B based WLAN cards
    [   13.924173] rtl8187: Initializing module
    [   13.924175] rtl8187: Wireless extensions version 22
    [   13.924178] rtl8187: Initializing proc filesystem
    [   13.984482] rtl8187: idProduct:0x8189, bcdDevice:0x200
    [   14.041994] rtl8187: Channel plan is 0 
    [   14.042492] rtl8187: Reported EEPROM chip is a 93c46 (1Kbit)
    [   14.451801] rtl8187: Card MAC address is 00:16:44:1a:5d:e6
    [   14.935740] rtl8187: EEPROM Customer ID: 00
    [   14.936110] rtl8187: Driver probe completed
    [   14.939223] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
    [   19.968182] apm: BIOS not found.
    [   26.417418] rtl8187: rtl8187_open process 
    [   26.418922] rtl8187: Now Radio ON!
    [   26.429354] rtl8187: Card successfully reset
    [   30.390085] rtl8187: DIG is enabled, set default initial gain index to 4
    [   30.392061] rtl8187: RTL8187 + 8225 Initial Gain State 4: -74 dBm 
    [   30.398076] rtl8187: WIRELESS_MODE_G
    [   30.442278] rtl8187: rtl8187_open process complete
    [   32.441058] rtl8187: IPSEnter(): Turn off RF.
    [   32.442216] rtl8187: Now Radio OFF!
    [   34.137058] rtl8187: rtl8180_down process
    [   34.816177] rtl8187: rtl8187_open process 
    [   34.866540] rtl8187: Card successfully reset
    [   38.864333] rtl8187: DIG is enabled, set default initial gain index to 4
    [   38.866449] rtl8187: RTL8187 + 8225 Initial Gain State 4: -74 dBm 
    [   38.872447] rtl8187: WIRELESS_MODE_G
    [   38.929651] rtl8187: rtl8187_open process complete
    [   38.930168] rtl8187: ISLeave(): Turn on RF.
    [   38.932461] rtl8187: Now Radio ON!
    [  114.932888] rtl8187: GPIO Polling Methord Will Turn Radio Off
    [  114.935634] rtl8187: Now Radio OFF!
    [  124.932854] rtl8187: GPIO Polling Methord Will Turn Radio On
    [  124.935344] rtl8187: Now Radio ON!
    [ 1242.984375] rtl8187: RTL8187 + 8225 Initial Gain State 3: -78 dBm 
    [ 1282.992322] rtl8187: RTL8187 + 8225 Initial Gain State 2: -78 dBm 
    [ 1314.935361] rtl8187: GPIO Polling Methord Will Turn Radio Off
    [ 1314.942861] rtl8187: Now Radio OFF!
    [ 1322.933186] rtl8187: GPIO Polling Methord Will Turn Radio On
    [ 1322.938035] rtl8187: Now Radio ON!
    [ 1475.544050] rtl8187: RTL8187 + 8225 Initial Gain State 3: -78 dBm
    Sudo make me a sandwich!

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    Angry Re: HOWTO: Get RTL8187B (ID: 8197) Working. Step by Step

    Quote Originally Posted by Ropechoborra View Post

    In ubuntu 9.04 the wireless card is recogniced and it connects to my router (at least it says its connected) but i don't have internet connection or ping response for the router.

    Any ideas?


    Soultion found !! Installing the new driver release from Realtek (2009). You can download it from here http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.p...8&d=1240801314
    I've got a new notebook and it came with RTL8187B (I think the code is 0bda).
    I'am getting very very angry to make it work with ubuntu 9.04. My wife is claiming to put Vista back. I don't want, but I will have no choice if I could not make this wireless work.
    I have the same problem as said above: can connect but cannot browse, unless I am very close to the AP.
    Does this solution works on 9.04 jaunty ?

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    Re: HOWTO: Get RTL8187B (ID: 8197) Working. Step by Step

    Quote Originally Posted by Ropechoborra View Post
    Soultion found !! Installing the new driver release from Realtek (2009). You can download it from here http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.p...8&d=1240801314

    Special thanks to pimpinjg. ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...15#post7157415 )
    Well thanks for that find. Unfortunately it finally didn't succeeded, but at least I can do the following with that driver:

    - driver loads on start-up
    - I can see my AP using iwlist scan wlan0
    - I can see my AP in wicd

    but if I try to connect using wicd I get the following in the syslog:

    Code:
    Aug  9 23:01:53 erik-laptop kernel: [  313.804329] rtl8187: ISLeave(): Turn on RF.
    Aug  9 23:01:53 erik-laptop kernel: [  313.816699] rtl8187: Now Radio ON!
    Aug  9 23:01:53 erik-laptop kernel: [  314.015730] Linking with xxx_01, channel:1
    Aug  9 23:01:53 erik-laptop kernel: [  314.032690] channel(1). is invalide
    Aug  9 23:01:55 erik-laptop kernel: [  316.046702] Linking with xxx_01, channel:1
    Aug  9 23:01:55 erik-laptop kernel: [  316.072570] channel(1). is invalide
    Aug  9 23:01:58 erik-laptop kernel: [  318.572488] Linking with xxx_01, channel:1
    Aug  9 23:01:58 erik-laptop kernel: [  318.589368] channel(1). is invalide
    Any ideas about that?

    I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 with 2.6.28-12-generic. My 8187B is actually a

    lsusb:
    Code:
    Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bda:8197 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187B Wireless Adapter
    Currently I'm running the driver provided by linuxwireless.org. These worked fine until I had to re-position my WLAN-router a few days ago. Now the distance between computer and router is a little bit larger (some metres) and I encounter poor download-performance.

    That's the reason why I wanted to give these Realtek driver a try...

    Many thanks in advance & cheers, Erik

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    Re: HOWTO: Get RTL8187B (ID: 8197) Working. Step by Step

    Hi there,

    I've installed ubuntu 9.04 a couple of days ago and couldn't get my Netgear USB 2.0 stick with RTL8187B chipset to work properly. I've tried several suggestions like turning off acpi, using alternative ndiswrapper driver, turning off wpa2, ipv6 and so on....

    I was considering to buy another usb stick that would work until I stumbled on this thread on the ubuntu forum.

    Fixing the rate at 5.5M works perfectly. Before my connection with the router came up but pinging the router wouldn't work most of the time. Now each ping is succesfull so I guess this is the solution . I will try to increase my fixed rate to see what happens...

    Thanks a lot!

    Mabula

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    Re: HOWTO: Get RTL8187B (ID: 8197) Working. Step by Step

    I'm new to this forum, befuddled by a lot of the jargon, not very adept at using the search function, and this is a dauntingly long thread. So please forgive me if this has already been covered.

    I have a driver which according to its readme file:

    Release Date: 2007-08-22, ver 1.24
    RTL8187B Linux driver version 1.24

    --This driver supports RealTek RTL8187/RTL8187B Wireless LAN NIC
    for
    2.6 kernel:
    Fedora Core 2/3/4/5/6/7, Debian 3.1, Mandrake 10.2/Mandriva 2006,
    SUSE 9.3/10.1/10.2, Gentoo 3.1, etc.
    2.4 kernel:
    Redhat 9.2, etc
    - Support Client mode for either infrastructure or adhoc mode
    - Support WEP, WPAPSK and WPA2PSK connection
    I'm not especially tech savvy, but I do understand that Ubuntu is based on a debian kernel. And not being especially tech savvy, I haven't yet figured out how to install this driver in Ubuntu 9.1.

    I would be very grateful if somebody could give me an idiot-proof step-by-step rundown on the installation process for this driver.

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    Re: HOWTO: Get RTL8187B (ID: 8197) Working. Step by Step

    I found my way to the terminal, and tried a command somebody showed me in another thread. If I'm reading it right, it seems to be indicating that the system hasd detected both my internal and external wifi cards:

    nikkiru@ubuntu:~$ iwconfig
    lo no wireless extensions.

    wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

    wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
    Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
    Tx-Power=0 dBm
    Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
    Power Management:off
    Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
    Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
    Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

    wmaster1 no wireless extensions.

    wlan1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
    Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
    Tx-Power=20 dBm
    Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
    Power Management:off
    Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
    Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
    Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
    I'd be grateful if somebody would tell me what "no wireless extensions" means and what (if anything) I can do about it. And maybe even how to associate these devices, assuming that they need to be associated in order to function.
    Last edited by Nikkiru; November 17th, 2009 at 12:05 AM.

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    Re: HOWTO: Get RTL8187B (ID: 8197) Working. Step by Step

    Quote Originally Posted by Ropechoborra View Post
    I was able to make my rtl8187b work in ubuntu 8.04 with this driver http://rapidshare.com/files/21484241...07.2008.tar.gz

    In ubuntu 9.04 the wireless card is recogniced and it connects to my router (at least it says its connected) but i don't have internet connection or ping response for the router.

    Any ideas?


    Soultion found !! Installing the new driver release from Realtek (2009). You can download it from here http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.p...8&d=1240801314

    Special thanks to pimpinjg. ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...15#post7157415 )
    I downloaded this driver for Karmic, but it wouldn't compile. I comment out the code it was complaining about (crazy) and got it to compile. Before I was getting speeds of 1MB/s now I'm hitting the 15s and 20s.

    Thanks.

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    Re: HOWTO: Get RTL8187B (ID: 8197) Working. Step by Step

    Quote Originally Posted by oobe-feisty View Post
    it doesnt make any sense to me i came accross your post cause i googled the same term i just downloaded a 5 day older tar ball and that worked must be a bug that they need to get out

    http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/comp...-04-13.tar.bz2

    this is the one i downloaded that built fine
    I've had this problem of losing my connection when I was using torrents, I'll check this driver.SO far, after installing and follow the instructions on the Readme, all seems okay, currently checking the torrent issue.
    Will keep informing

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