HOWTO: Get RTL8187B (ID: 8197) Working. Step by Step

[Tom--d]

Thats ok

You will have to wait a week. (thats how long it took me )

If its possible, could you attach the driver from Realtek in a post?

Thanks,
Tom

[Tom--d]

I can confirm that no encryption and pass phrase works with network manager.

For me, I have WEP encryption. For some reason, it doesn't work properly.

[Brown_]

Hi y'all.
When I saw that thread name i thought my problems with wireless driver's gone, but unfortunately it's wrong... Following that tutorial you made, I did the same you did, and we've got the same wireless card(rtl8187, id 8197).
Every things was going well till the part "net8187b
Hardware Present: Yes" after that in Network Manager, i supposed to see wireless access points, but there's only "Wired Connection" and "Point to Point Connection" no Wireless access point.Once back I installed the rtl8187-jadamns-modified-driver and after all i could see the available networks list, but i couldn't make the internet work at all, only the list shows up...
Any idea what's goin' on ?
Ps.: Gezzes...That the only one driver left to ubuntu works fine...

Thanks in advance

[Tom--d]

Reboot and see if ity works then.

[Brown_]

The entire proccess i did connected on a wired connection, should i disconnect before install ? or it doesn't matter !?

[Tom--d]

It shouldn't affect anything but to be on the save side, yes.

Also, make sure your wireless switch is ON (thats if you have one) while installing the driver

[Brown_]

Hey Tom.
Thanks for the replies. I still didnt make it work, did every thing again, even reinstall ubuntu, but didn't make any diference, after install the Wireless Manager keeps the same(Wired connection and Point 2 point connection)
There are some results:

mateus@mateus-laptop:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8197 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
mateus@mateus-laptop:~$ lspc
lspci lspcmcia
mateus@mateus-laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7914
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2)
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
14:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
14:06.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
14:06.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
14:06.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)

mateus@mateus-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

- What should i try next !?
\Cheers

[Tom--d]

Right,
Do you have ndiswrapper installed. And ndisgtk (GUI of Ndiswrapper)

Then get the driver on my second post. Extract it, keep it in the folder!
Go to, System > Admin > Windows Wireless Drivers

Install Driver, locate the .inf file. (the .sys file must be in there as well!)

Then, it should, like mine, say 'Hardware Present = Yes' If yes. The driver is installed, properly!

Then do. in terminal,

sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
sudo ifconfig wlan up

Then after, do this.

wlist scan

then post the outcomes!

[Petawa]

I have the same wifi card as well. I followed the tutorial, and I was able to see "net8187b Hardware Present: Yes" from Windows Wireless Drivers. However, when I try to "ifconfig wlan0 up" or anything else wlan0, it says that wlan0 cannot be found. Indeed, Network Manager does not see a wireless card either.

I can get internet using the included rtl8187 drivers. However, it is very unstable. It will always show 4 or 5 bars in network manager, but the internet tends to stop working after 2 or 3 minutes, and I have to rmmod/modprobe rtl8187 to get it back for another 2 to 3 minutes. I've seen many posts about this problem on this forum, but none have a solution beyond installing ndiswrapper, hence why I followed this tutorial.

I added rtl8187 to blacklist before I followed this tutorial. As I mentioned, even though it says the hardware is present, I can't do anything with wlan0, since it doesn't think its there. I "modprobe ndiswrapper", no change. I "modprobe rtl8187", and immediately wlan0 appears and it connects (though its unstable). I "rmmod rtl8187" and wlan0 disappears again.

I've tried restarting many times. I always have no internet at all upon boot, and I can never see wlan0 until I resort to using the default unstable drivers.

Can anyone figure out why the hardware is detected but wlan0 won't appear when using ndiswrapper?

[Tom--d]

I have the same wifi card as well. I followed the tutorial, and I was able to see "net8187b Hardware Present: Yes" from Windows Wireless Drivers. However, when I try to "ifconfig wlan0 up" or anything else wlan0, it says that wlan0 cannot be found. Indeed, Network Manager does not see a wireless card either.

I can get internet using the included rtl8187 drivers. However, it is very unstable. It will always show 4 or 5 bars in network manager, but the internet tends to stop working after 2 or 3 minutes, and I have to rmmod/modprobe rtl8187 to get it back for another 2 to 3 minutes. I've seen many posts about this problem on this forum, but none have a solution beyond installing ndiswrapper, hence why I followed this tutorial.

I added rtl8187 to blacklist before I followed this tutorial. As I mentioned, even though it says the hardware is present, I can't do anything with wlan0, since it doesn't think its there. I "modprobe ndiswrapper", no change. I "modprobe rtl8187", and immediately wlan0 appears and it connects (though its unstable). I "rmmod rtl8187" and wlan0 disappears again.

I've tried restarting many times. I always have no internet at all upon boot, and I can never see wlan0 until I resort to using the default unstable drivers.

Can anyone figure out why the hardware is detected but wlan0 won't appear when using ndiswrapper?

Weird :\
I'm using the wireless card now and its fine.

ok, now in terminal type, iwconfig

post the output. With the ndiswrapper drivers installed etc.