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rtl8187b wireless

Asked by Jimmie

Hello all
              I have a toshiba notebook and have been working with window forever. I don't have a clue as to how to get
my wlan to work. I recently downloaded rtl818x-mod2.6.24.tar.bz2 but have know idea what to do with it. I feel like a
complete fool and am close to giving up. If any of you can help, it would be much appreciated. If you need more info
please remember that when it comes to Linux I'm still a virgin

Thank you in advance

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Jimmie (push2010) said : 		#1

this might help
immie@Merlin:~$ sudo ifconfig
[sudo] password for jimmie:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:a0:d1:94:61:2e
          inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:d1ff:fe94:612e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:173 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:179 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:169563 (165.5 KB) TX bytes:17960 (17.5 KB)
          Interrupt:17

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:1368 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1368 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:57456 (56.1 KB) TX bytes:57456 (56.1 KB)
jimmie@Merlin:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

To help you better we need some infos about your hardware so please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

lspci

lspci is lower of LSPCI

copy and paste result here.

Thank you

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Jimmie (push2010) said : 		#3

jimmie@Merlin:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)

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Theodotos Andreou (theodotos) said : 		#4

According to the above you do not have a Wireless card on your system. If it a usb card plug it in before you run lspci. Otherwise it maybe disabled in bios?

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peter b (b1pete) said : 		#5

pls. do

lsusb

and

sudo lshw -C network

commands (l above is small L)- the wifi should be there; post output of both here pls. we'll pick it up from there.

peter b

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Jimmie (push2010) said : 		#6

jimmie@Merlin:~$ lsusb
Bus 007 Device 003: ID 0bda:8197 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 413c:3012 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

jimmie@Merlin:~$ sudo lshw -c network
[sudo] password for jimmie:
Hardware Lister (lshw) - B.02.12.01
usage: lshw [-format] [-options ...]
       lshw -version

 -version print program version (B.02.12.01)

format can be
 -html output hardware tree as HTML
 -xml output hardware tree as XML
 -short output hardware paths
 -businfo output bus information

options can be
 -class CLASS only show a certain class of hardware
 -C CLASS same as '-class CLASS'
 -disable TEST disable a test (like pci, isapnp, cpuid, etc. )
 -enable TEST enable a test (like pci, isapnp, cpuid, etc. )
 -quiet don't display status
 -sanitize sanitize output (remove sensitive information like serial numbers, etc.)

I'm sure there is a card in there somewhere. My puter came with Vista and I changed it to Xp now I'm dual booting
XP and Ubuntu. I did have a lot of trouble with wireless card in XP at first but after getting the right driver all is well

If my card is turned off, it has to be something in the Ubuntu start-up right ? Is there a way to program it to initialize
on start-up or have I done something to by mistake

sorry it took so long to get this info back to you but 4:00am is my limit

I do appreciate the help

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Jimmie (push2010) said : 		#7

jimmie@Merlin:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 14
       serial: 00:a0:d1:94:61:2e
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sky2 driverversion=1.20 duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=192.168.0.2 latency=0 link=yes module=sky2 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
jimmie@Merlin:~$

Capital C Sorry about that

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peter b (b1pete) said : 		#8

your wifi interface is

Bus 007 Device 003: ID 0bda:8197 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

pls follow instructions at

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/RealtekRTL8187b

it appears that it works under 804 and with 810 (intrepid not officially released yet) still under dev stages too. as you could see option 2 works v well for the author of this howto.

best of luck.

peter b

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Jimmie (push2010) said : 		#9

well at least now I can see it in my networks however, it still doesn't work
new info
jimmie@Merlin:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 802.11b/g Mode:Managed Channel=4
          Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
          Retry:on Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

jimmie@Merlin:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:a0:d1:94:61:2e
          inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:d1ff:fe94:612e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:2738 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2488 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3148332 (3.0 MB) TX bytes:313833 (306.4 KB)
          Interrupt:17

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:1656 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1656 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:82800 (80.8 KB) TX bytes:82800 (80.8 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:44:8d:90:77
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:8 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:800 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:33600 (32.8 KB)

wlan0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:44:8d:90:77
          inet addr:169.254.6.217 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

jimmie@Merlin:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)

jimmie@Merlin:~$ lsusb
Bus 007 Device 003: ID 0bda:8197 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 413c:3012 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Maybe someday I'll understand what all this means

I appreciate your continued support in this matter

I am now determined to make the Thing work
lol

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Jimmie (push2010) said : 		#10

Never Mind I had a brain fart

It works

Thank you all so much for your help

now I'm going to learn some commands