[xubuntu-users] Help with wireless drivers

[Lee Gold]

Yes, the rtl8187 driver is there but it does not work AFAIK. I have rtl8187L. I suspect I will need to blacklist the existing driver and add a tweaked one. I don't know how...

It actually says it connected to the wireless router but at 17% while XP connects at a least 50% and has three bars sometimes four. But Xubuntu will not surf, it will not ping so there's more I must do.


> Hey Lee,
> 
> I have that driver.mine worked out of the box. Mine is the rtl8187b
> driver. I think that there is another one called rtl8187L. If yours is
> the same as mine you can try in a terminal
> 
> sudo modprobe rtl8187, then again in a terminal do sudo lsmod. you might
> not need the sudo. and look under usb and see if it is listed there. If
> you see it and it still doesn;t load try sudo ifconfig wlan0 up or
> whatever your card is listed as. you can check this by typing sudo
> ifconfig -a and see if it is listed and loaded.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 21:00 -0400, Lee Gold wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out how to install a driver for realtek 
> > RTL8187 wifi USB onto 9.04. I've read, searched the web but I can't 
> > find a coherent step by step explanation on how to do it. I'm 
> > looking for a simple explanation.
> >
> > Xubuntu seems to see the chip but there's an issue(s) - it just 
> > won't "surf". I think I may have to blacklist existing drivers. I 
> > have XP dual boot and it works OK in XP. I'm really not sure how to 
> > do this.
> >
> > There are linux drives from realtek but they don't give any install 
> > instructions I can understand. Thanks,
> >
> > Lee
> 

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