Lan Barnes wrote:
Because my new laptop (formerly Alex's ... long story) has bum internal wireless, I bought an Airlink 101 USB wireless Realtek 8189). It's supported under ndiswrapper. I have it up to where iwlist wlan0 scan finds my router, but it freezes hard (power off) when I activate it.
Are you positive the chip is an RTL8189? Nothing shows up on the Realtek web site for that chip. How did you determine what the actual chip is? What do you get from the output of lsusb? I see in some places that the RTL8187 chip has an ID of 0bda:8189
You might try the driver for the RTL8187 chip before you start doing custom kernel compiles. Info here: <http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/productsView.aspx?Langid=1&PFid=1&Level=6&Conn=5&ProdID=143> There are some messages in the Ubuntu forums that indicate the RTL8187 driver works for the RTL8189 chip.
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