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Hi Jeff, |
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On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: |
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> I have checked, and ndiswrapper and the rtl8187 package were uninstalled. |
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> I think that the problem I have may be more basic. |
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> The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187. I wonder if this is part of the |
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> problem. Could it be that the kernel driver does not support the 8197? |
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> The attached weblink suggests that this may be the case: |
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> http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2007/09/26/no-more-vista/ |
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> Does anyone know how I can locate the equivalent code in the kernel and |
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> perhaps perform a similar modification? |
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(can you please stop top-posting, it makes reading of threads difficult in |
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this mailing list). |
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Your device may still be supported by the driver. The problem may exist with |
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the wpa_supplicant. You could try commenting out the wpa_supplicant in |
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your /etc/conf.d/net file and using net-wireless/wireless-tools instead. |
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Then try again to see if it a)finds the access point (try iwlist wlan0 |
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scanning), b)associates with it (try iwlist wlan0 accesspoint) . Of course |
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you will need to remove WPA from the AP. Should all this succeed you can |
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work your way up from there. |
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PS. I haven't managed to make wpa_supplicant work with my device rt2570usb |
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for more than a year now, but haven't tried recently. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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