Wireless [rtl8187b] on Toshiba A200-1V0 [Ubuntu 8.04]
Posted in GNU/Linux, Toshiba, Ubuntu with tags GNU/Linux, Hardy Heron, Realtek 8187B, Ubuntu, wireless on May 15, 2008 by Mean-MachineI tried quite a few methods and drivers before. Unfortunately none of them worked for me.
Because I’m using the Huawei e220 USB Modem and didn’t really need the wireless that urgently, I gave up for a while.
Today I’ve decided to give it another go and started searching for ‘new’ methods/solutions/drivers in ubuntuforums. I found one that worked for me and hope that it will also work for you, if you haven’t fixed it already ;-]
This HowTo was originally posted in ubuntuforums by pana.corbului
First you have to be sure that your wireless card is using the rtl 8187b chipset. You can check this by issueing lsusb command in console
octav@toshiba:~$ lsusb
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 04d9:0499 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc.
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:8197 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000Next, you’ll install ndiswrapper which is a software for using Windows wireless drivers with Linux, if the current linux kernel doesn´t support a certain device.
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential ndiswrapper-utils-1.9Stop the network
sudo /etc/init.d/networking stopDownload driver from here and save it to your deskop and install it using ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -i ~/Desktop/net8187b.infCheck if it was properly installed
sudo ndiswrapper -lThe output should be something like net8187b : driver installed device (0BDA:8197) present;
If there were no erros you can build kernel module
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo modprobe ndiswrapperStart networking
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restartActivate wireless interface from laptop’s switch.
Hope it’s working for you already.
When trying to install the driver with ndiswrapper you get this kind of message:
couldn’t find “RTL8187B.sys” in “/home/Desktop”; make sure all driver files, including .inf, .sys (and any firmware files) are in “/home/Desktop” -
installation may be incomplete
then you’ll need to download this RTL8187B.sys file from here and save it to the same location as the rtl8187b.inf. Now install the driver again and continue with the next steps.
