HP Pavilion DV3505ea Laptop: Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 @ 2.0Ghz - 2GB RAM - 160GB HDD - nVidia GeForce 9300M GS - Intel 5100AGN Wireless
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.
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!
Laptop:9.10 Karmic Koala 64-bit/Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (Dual boot), Gateway T-1621, AMD Turion 64 X2 1.8 GHz, 4 GB Ram, ATI Radeon X1270
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 ?
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:
Any ideas about that?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
I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 with 2.6.28-12-generic. My 8187B is actually a
lsusb:
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.Code:Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bda:8197 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187B Wireless Adapter
That's the reason why I wanted to give these Realtek driver a try...
Many thanks in advance & cheers, Erik
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
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:
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.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 would be very grateful if somebody could give me an idiot-proof step-by-step rundown on the installation process for this driver.
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:
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.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
Last edited by Nikkiru; November 17th, 2009 at 12:05 AM.
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