wireless problem using linux driver

[Gerald Dachs]

> chris at ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo modprobe r8180
> [sudo] password for chris:
> FATAL: Module r8180 not found.
> chris at ubuntu:~/Desktop$ 

Look what a mess you made, because you top posted to Dereks reply.
In your first mail with this huge amount of text there can be found
evidence for the fact that you made your own kernel and have lost
the r8180 module on this way. 'apt-file search r8180.ko' will show you
that the module is part of the module packages for the stock kernels.

Gerald


> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote: 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.