realtek wireless

[Jim Rosser]

I just bought a Gateway T-1628 with a realtek wireless driver and i found
this forum posting helpful and you might also.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=681925&page=2

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:44 PM, steve <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> new laptop has a wireless nic ive never experienced before, cant seem to
> get it to work properly, well, not at all.
>
> 01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185
> IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)
>
> downloaded the xp driver from realtek, and used the net8185.inf file
> with ndiswrapper, but shows no wireless extensions, rebooted several
> times needed or not had no idea, first time using ndiswrapper, still no
> dice.
>
> 2nd try used the realtek linux driver from their site, cant even get
> that to compile, maybe one of you can make heads or tails of this......
> everything to compile is already installed, build-essentials, gcc,
> headers, etc
>
> root at smil3y:~/Desktop/rtl8187_linux_26.1025.0328.2007# ls
> drv.tar.gz makedrv stack.tar.gz wlan0down wlan0up
> ifcfg-wlan0 ReadMe.txt wlan0dhcp wlan0rmv wpa_supplicant-0.4.9
>
> root at smil3y:~/Desktop/rtl8187_linux_26.1025.0328.2007# ./makedrv
>
> <snip>
>
> rror: implicit declaration of function 'SET_MODULE_OWNER'
>
> /home/steve/Desktop/rtl8187_linux_26.1025.0328.2007/rtl8187/r8187_core.c:2956:
> error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'get_wireless_stats'
> make[2]: ***
> [/home/steve/Desktop/rtl8187_linux_26.1025.0328.2007/rtl8187/r8187_core.o]
> Error 1
> make[1]: ***
> [_module_/home/steve/Desktop/rtl8187_linux_26.1025.0328.2007/rtl8187]
> Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-19-generic'
> make: *** [modules] Error 2
> root at smil3y:~/Desktop/rtl8187_linux_26.1025.0328.2007#
>
>
> Is there something around like madwifi is for atheros for realtek?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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Jim Rosser
Winchester Designs
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