wireless problem using linux driver

[Derek Broughton]

Chris Lemire wrote:

> I tried using Vista x86 and x64 drivers with ndiswrapper. Neither
> appeared to work.I thought I had to use ndiswrapper, but as I was
> browsing around the web to find the windows driver, I found a linux
> driver, so I began to follow the directons, but got stuck while
> running a command didn't work. I have no experience with wireless in
> Linux.
> 
> chris at ubuntu:~/Desktop/rtl8185_linux_26.1027.0823.2007$ ls
> ifcfg-wlan0  release_note    wlan0dhcp  wpa_supplicant-0.4.9.tar.gz
> makedrv      rtl8185.tar.gz  wlan0down
> readme       stack.tar.gz    wlan0up
> chris at ubuntu:~/Desktop/rtl8185_linux_26.1027.0823.2007$ cat readme
> RTL8185 Linux Driver v1027.0823.2007 for linux kernel 2.6


And it didn't occur to you to just try:

# sudo modprobe r8180

?

You seem to have gone to an awful lot of effort to compile a driver that I
see on my own system.  Perhaps, the version you compiled works for hardware
that the installed driver doesn't, but the first option would have to be to
try the one that you already have.
-- 
derek