On Sun, June 1, 2008 8:49 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > 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 >
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.6.18-53.el5-i686]# lsusb Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1241:1177 Belkin F8E842-DL Mouse Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Sure, why shouldn't it lie to me. I'll try the RTL8187 A custom kernel is never the first choice. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
