ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 51, Issue 35

[Christopher Lees]

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 23:37 +0100, Norm wrote:
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 08:31:28 +1000
> From: "Norm, VK3XCI" <vk3xci at aanet.com.au>
> Subject: Re: 701SD wireless
> To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Morning all,
> 
> here's where we're at.
> Wireless card is a realtek RTL8187SE
> Kernal driver in use is r8180
> Kernel module is rtl8187se
> It sees all the wireless networks around me, 3 all together
> My wireless is 64bit WEP shared key. (lowest common denominator)
> I have installed the non-free package.
> Tries to connect but fails with no error message.

Are you typing in the WEP passphrase, or the WEP key?

Most devices and operating systems can't accept a WEP password, only the
key (that seemingly-meaningless string). Ubuntu is usually okay with
accepting a WEP password, but maybe it has regressed in this regard.

The other thing is, I have the regular RTL8187 and it works fine. Have
you tried:

sudo modprobe -r rtl8187se
sudo modprobe rtl8187

Hopefully, if the chipsets are very similar, the device should come back
up in a few seconds and work. You'd need to do this on every boot, or
just add the rtl8187se driver to the blacklist and rtl8187 to the
"always load" list. If those two commands above work, but you don't know
how to blacklist modules, just e-mail me and I'll send back some
instructions.