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How do I get a Realtec RLT8187B wireless card in a Toshiba Notebook to work with openSUSE 11?

kenanton wrote:
> How do I get a Realtec RLT8187B wireless card in a Toshiba Notebook to
> work with openSUSE 11?
>
>
Moving from Laptop to Wireless forum.

What ID codes does the command ‘lsusb -v’ show for your device? If it starts with 8198, then you will have to use ndiswrapper with the Windows driver. If the code is 8187 or 8189, then patches for the kernel are available at

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=311231

The first kernel that will support the 8187B without patching is 2.6.27.

Larry