On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:49:15 -0700, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
FYI, I have a cheapo TrendNet watchamahookie that reports the same ID yet
uses RTL8187B. Except this stick was kind enough to tell me that:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# lsusb
Bus 1 Device 3: ID 0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187B Wireless
802.11g 54Mbps Network Adapter
Bus 1 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 5 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 4 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 3 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 2 Device 2: ID 046d:c401 Logitech, Inc. TrackMan Marble Wheel
Bus 2 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
I have the added benefit(?) of being dual boot, so I was able to just
install this on Windows and heist the .inf and .sys file from that
partiton. Got this puppy working in about 15 minutes. If you find you need
the 'b' driver let me know and I can send it to you.
-Matt
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