Kernel drivers for RTL 8180/8185 wireless cards not loaded
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Hi,
I've been trying v7 since beta 2 and I haven't been able to get the Netgear MA521 (RTL8180L chipset) wireless card in my Dell Latitude L400 to work. I've been using Mepis since 6.0.
I recently e-mailed DEV thinking that it was a problem with NDISWRAPPER wrongly detecting the card as a netr33x, but I've checked and 6.5 does too. If I type ndiswrapper -l, it shows
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netr33x: driver installed device (10EC:8180) present ,but on 6.5 it also says (alternate driver: r818x)
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I have two other Netgear wireless cards, one USB - the MA401 and MA101. Both used to work in 6.0 and 6.5, but no longer work in 7.0 betas 2 to 4.
The hardware kernel driver for RTL 8180/5 wireless chipsets is not loaded.
Tried a work around to force to the kernel to load the module at boot time, i.e. I added the line rtl8187 to /etc/modules ,but my wireless card still does not work - out of ideas - anyone?
Still not working with Beta 5
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Wondering if you still have a 6.5 partition going , if so do a lsmod in it to see what module is loaded & works. Then do a lsmod in 7.0 bx to compare the drivers, if its not the same do a modprobe rlt_81xx (whatever it is) to load it & see if it works. Usually the module will be listed similar to example. Maybe you just didnt use the right syntax or module. Good luck!
jim
Still not working with Beta 5
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which is a disappointment.
Does Antix have better support for older wireless 'B' cards?
Looks like I will have to stick Mepis 6.5