Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

[Jeff Cranmer]

I have checked, and ndiswrapper and  the rtl8187 package were uninstalled.
I think that the problem I have may be more basic.

The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187.  I wonder if this is part of the 
problem.  Could it be that the kernel driver does not support the 8197?

The attached weblink suggests that this may be the case:
http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2007/09/26/no-more-vista/

Does anyone know how I can locate the equivalent code in the kernel and 
perhaps perform a similar modification?

Thanks

Jeff
 


On Monday 17 December 2007 06:26:41 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> I have rtl8187 compiled into the kernel.
> I could try compiling it as a module, then loading it via modules.autoload,
> to see if that gives any alternative response.  Perhaps the first step
> would be not to put it in modules.autoload and modprobe it to more easily
> see the response.
>
> Since I was playing around with ndiswrapper and the rtl8187 portage
> package, it's possible that they may be messing things up, and I can't
> remember whether or not I unmerged them.  I'll check whether these packages
> are still present and get rid of them if they are.
>
> I'm away from my laptop at the moment, so can't run the dmesg command you
> suggested until tomorrow evening.  I'll let you know whether my activities
> reveal anything interesting then.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jeff
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> >From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
> >Sent: Dec 16, 2007 8:13 PM
> >To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup
> >
> >On 16 Dec 2007, at 22:56, Mick wrote:
> >> On Sunday 16 December 2007, Stroller wrote:
> >>> On 16 Dec 2007, at 17:14, Mick wrote:
> >>>> On Sunday 16 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> >>>>>>> Running the command 'dmesg | grep rtl8187' after reboot returns
> >>>>>>> the message
> >>>>>>> usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
> >>>>>
> >>>>> All I get for iwconfig is
> >>>>> lo		no wireless extensions
> >>>>> eth0	no wireless extensions.
> >>>>
> >>>> This means that the driver has not been loaded yet.
> >>>
> >>> Looking at Jeff's previous post (quoted added above) that's not a
> >>> conclusion I'd jump to.
> >>
> >> Oops!  Sorry, didn't see that.  If the driver is loaded then why
> >> isn't an
> >> interface showing up?
> >
> >Good question. I agree that without seeing that statement I might
> >
> >well have thought the same thing. That's why I wrote:
> >>> But it would have helped if Jeff had posted `dmesg | grep rtl8187 &&
> >>> iwconfig` in the same post to prove the point.
> >
> >Stroller.
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