[opensuse-factory] Wlanadapter rtl8187b nor working
I run OpensSuse Beta2 (x86_64)on a Toshiba laptop with a RTL8187b wlanadapter. The modules are loaded, but the card does not show up as wlan. iwconfig gives me: lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. dmesg | grep -i wlan shows usb 6-6: Product: RTL8187B_WLAN_Adapter lsmod | grep -i rtl rtl8187 52608 0 usbcore 188120 4 ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd,rtl8187 mac80211 220436 1 rtl8187 eeprom_93cx6 19328 1 rtl8187 i tried this from "Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.0_dev" /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -u -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log & an got as result dbus_bus_request_name[dbus]: Resource temporarily unavailable Failed to initialize wpa_supplicant I tried to install the ralink-firmware package with yast but it said the package is not available. Then i downloaddt the package and installed it manual. Yast shows it as installed but with 0 files. rpm - ql ralink-firmware shows /lib/firmware/LICENSE.ralink-firmware.txt /lib/firmware/rt2561.bin /lib/firmware/rt2561s.bin /lib/firmware/rt2661.bin /lib/firmware/rt73.bin lsusb Bus 006 Device 002: ID 0bda:8197 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187B Wireless Adapter hwinfo shows for the device: 49: USB 00.0: 0000 Unclassified device [Created at usb.122] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_bda_8197_00e04c000001_if0 Unique ID: kQby.mxPV7LrmdS5 Parent ID: 7eqy.MrJLBLcWB9F SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.5/usb6/6-6/6-6:1.0 SysFS BusID: 6-6:1.0 Hardware Class: unknown Model: "Realtek RTL8187B_WLAN_Adapter" Hotplug: USB Vendor: usb 0x0bda "Realtek Semiconductor Corp." Device: usb 0x8197 "RTL8187B_WLAN_Adapter" Revision: "2.00" Serial ID: "00e04c000001" Speed: 480 Mbps Module Alias: "usb:v0BDAp8197d0200dc00dsc00dp00icFFiscFFipFF" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #50 (Hub) Can someone tell me how to get it work? Thank you Michael -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Hi, Am Montag, 5. Mai 2008 16:23:02 schrieb Michael Steinhauser:
I run OpensSuse Beta2 (x86_64)on a Toshiba laptop with a RTL8187b wlanadapter. The modules are loaded, but the card does not show up as wlan. iwconfig gives me:
AFAIK the rtl8187b is not yet supported. I saw a few patches (see [1]) to get it working on the linux-wireless-list some time ago. But I don't think they will make it into 11.0. Regards, Helmut [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/11906/focus=1336... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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