im very new to linux only been using it for a 2 or so days, but am a very experienced windows user. (i am using opensuse 11.3 kde 4.4)
so the other day i installed ndiswrapper and installed a driver (winxp driver from netgear cd) for my usb netgear wireless adapter wg111v2 (RTL8187L). i connected it to home network via Yast, it worked brilliantly. the following day it didnt connect, i deleted the settings off yast and tryed again still no luck, i even changed it to network manager and tryed and still nothing. it scans the networks but everytime i look at it in yast network settings it say NOT CONNECTED; i set it to connect automatically aswell, and rebooted still nothing.( I also did “ndiswrapper -l” and it listed the driver as installed and “modprobe ndiswrapper” came back with no issues)
here is some extra info from the console:
“dmesg | less”
2.800063] usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
2.937200] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0846, idProduct=6a00
2.937207] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
2.937211] usb 1-3: Product: NETGEAR WG111v2
2.937213] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: NETGEAR WG111v2
2.937215] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 00184DBCEE48
‘/usr/sbin/iwconfig’
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
yh my bad i never realised it was in caps, i did at first plug the dongle in but nothing happend and yast never recognised it, so i googled it and many people found success with ndiswrapper, hence the reason i installed it. and aren’t the drivers on the netgear cd the RTL8187 drivers?, in linux you can open the .inf file and it did say realtek RTL8187 driver.
On 02/25/2011 03:06 PM, RENEG4DE wrote:
>
> yh my bad i never realised it was in caps, i did at first plug the
> dongle in but nothing happend and yast never recognised it, so i googled
> it and many people found success with ndiswrapper, hence the reason i
> installed it. and aren’t the drivers on the netgear cd the RTL8187
> drivers?, in linux you can open the .inf file and it did say realtek
> RTL8187 driver.
The driver you need has been in Linux for several years. Why you would want to
mess around with ndiswrapper is beyond me. Perhaps you miss Blue Screens of
Death from Windows drivers.
no, i dont miss blue screens of death, like i have said before only been using linux for a few days and my knowlegde on opensuse
is next to nothing, i have read whatever i can. i did read that it was in my opensuse (11.3 kde) but when i plugged it in nothing happend (yast never recognised it), so i googled it
and most people were using ndiswrapper. could you guide me of how to use the drivers which are already in the distro? i will remove the ndiswrapper driver .
I am nether an expert on wireless network devices/linux in general nor have I any extern WLAN device on hand to test the processing. And I have never tried to use ndiswrapper nor to make up any mess by trying that
But maybe I could at least try to help.
I think of:
Did you try it again on a untouched openSUSE 11.3 like with the use of a GNOME live CD or KDE live CD ?
1.2 Maybe:
Did you manually load the fitting linux driver via
a) opening a terminal/command line emulator like GNOME terminal or console [in KDE]
b) getting root privilegs with entering
su -
and your (root) password
c) loading the driver with
modprobe -v rtl8187
Compare for 2. the according manual page = manpage= the output of:
[overview - detailed informations may follow from me or a wiser pinguin…]
Deinstalling ndiswrapper and removing possible changing of your configuration after you testing 1. and your posting of the (positive) result.
repeating 1. on your installed system.
Have a lot of luck…and fun!
Martin
(still partly puzzled penguin pistazienfresser)
I also added the name of the manufacture of the wlan chip and the numeric ID of your device as tags below. And I searched these forums for simular threads and tagged them too.
Maybe clicking on that tags and looking at the results (but regarding the date!) may bring you to your problem and a solution, too.
Maybe you could also add an additional tag like rtl8187 (I am limited to ad two tags ‘foreign’ threads in this ‘foreign’ (en:) part of the forum).
Once you get rid of ndiswapper, there will be no need to fool around with
unloading/reloading the driver. In addition, it does not need external firmware.
You can test if the device is working with the following:
sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
The easiest way to use wireless with 11.3 is to enable NetworkManager. Once that
is running and you have an icon for the applet in the lower-right hand corner of
the screen, click on it and select the “Connection Manager”. From the screens
that pop up, configure the device.
I don’t know how old the postings were that said to use ndiswrapper; however,
driver rtl8187 has been in the kernel at least since 2007!
thanks for your reply, Martin (pistazienfresser) and lwfinger, i did as you said
i got rid of ndiswrapper, and the adapter worked fine without it, i honestly did not know it came with the driver since 2007.
also i made another noob mistake of not running the knetwork manager, instead i always ran network connections, so it wasnt going to work.
i am sorry for these stupid errors and once again say thanks for your time and effort to help a new opensuse user. THANKS:-)
On 02/26/2011 02:06 PM, RENEG4DE wrote:
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> hi
>
> thanks for your reply, Martin (pistazienfresser) and lwfinger, i did as
> you said
> i got rid of ndiswrapper, and the adapter worked fine without it, i
> honestly did not know it came with the driver since 2007.
> also i made another noob mistake of not running the knetwork manager,
> instead i always ran network connections, so it wasnt going to work.
>
> i am sorry for these stupid errors and once again say thanks for your
> time and effort to help a new opensuse user. THANKS:-)
I think that you were conditioned to expect wireless to be hard on Linux. It
used to be, but recent distributions make it as easy as on that OS (sic) from
Redmond. The only problem is for the newest devices. Every computer manufacturer
has a staff doing drivers for use with OS X or Windows, but not all wifi vendors
are helping with Linux. Intel and Atheros do, Realtek has started a big push,
and Broadcom now has a modest effort. Otherwise you depend on volunteers.
Glad you got your wireless working and welcome to the forums.
- even if it is only in the title.