On Sun, June 1, 2008 10:31 pm, MattyJ wrote: > 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. > >
I have those drivers on the distro disk under Win98. They were what I first tried, and they lock up stock CentOS (on this laptop, anyway) as well. I'll retry them and if it freezes, post back. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
