<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"><BR><BR> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: D. R. Evans <doc.evans@gmail.com><BR>To: kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<BR>Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:08:21 PM<BR>Subject: ndiswrapper questions<BR><BR>So...<BR><BR>Having got gutsy installed on my new laptop, I found that it wasn't seeing<BR>the wireless.<BR><BR>After a lot of googling and trying things, I discovered that the wifi<BR>device is a Realtek RTL8187B, which is not a supported device in the gutsy<BR>kernel.<BR><BR><BR>So I:<BR><BR>1. downloaded the WinXP driver for the device from<BR><A href="ftp://202.65.194.212/cn/wlan" target=_blank rel=nofollow>ftp://202.65.194.212/cn/wlan</A> (it's the file RTL8187B_driver_only.zip<BR><BR>2. Unzipping that file produces a bunch of directories, the WinXP one of<BR>which contains the net8187b.inf file.<BR><BR>3. I installed that with the command:<BR> ndiswrapper -i net8187b.inf<BR><BR>4. That created the expected /etc/ndiswrapper/net8187b directory;<BR>everything seemed to go fine.<BR><BR>5. I checked the devid of the chip with "lsusb", and the response was that<BR>the devid was 0bda:8197.<BR><BR>6. I executed:<BR> ndiswrapper -a 0bda:8197 net8187b.</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">what does ndiswrapper -l report?</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">if it says driver: <blah blah> hardware present or something very similar, you should be good to go.</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">now you need to do:</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">sudo depmod -a</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">sudo modprobe ndiswrapper (at this point your light for your wireless should come on If you haven't already got to this point)<BR></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">8. So now what? How do I actually access and/or configure the wifi network?<BR></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">you should be able to go into the control pannel and configure your wireless card and connection.<BR></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">In fact, how do I even find out that everything really has installed correctly?</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">to find out use the command ndiswrapper -l (like I mentioned above you should get driver:net8187b hardware present.)</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">PS: To get a list of commands for ndiswrapper just type ndiswrapper <BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>kubuntu-users mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</A><BR>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <A href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users" target=_blank rel=nofollow>https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</A><BR></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>