The default module to PCI Wireless Card Realtek 8185 has weak signal, something between 5% to 15%, on Ubuntu 9.04 kernel 2.6.28 .
On Mandriva this network device work very well, don't need to worry !
Nevertheless we can solve this problem installing the modeule from Realtek to this device.
The steps are easy:
On Mandriva this network device work very well, don't need to worry !
Nevertheless we can solve this problem installing the modeule from Realtek to this device.
The steps are easy:
- Download driver from Realtek .
- Unzip the file .
- Inside the file do make and make install, then reboot
- This is a very dirt step, you must install libssl-dev. Try a cable connection to Internet.
- unzip wpa_supplicant-0.5.5.zip
- cp defconfig .config
- make and cp wpa_cli wpa_supplicant /usr/local/bin
- reboot and let the job for the networkmanager
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I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 ant tried to compile the realtek driver.
First i've got the following error:
/home/david/Downloads/rtl8185_linux_26.1031.1207.2009.release/rtl8185/r8180_core.c:2065: error: implicit declaration of function ‘rdtsc_rtl’
and the driver don't compile.
So i opened the file r8180_core.c and go to line 2065 and comment the line (just putting "//" before it) and try again.
Everything worked fine after that.
Thanks!
That "hack" worked for me in Mandriva 2010 Spring :D
Hi, I had the good surprise to see that it seems fixed now in ubuntu 12.04, as I mentioned here : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/290325 I suppose it is due to the new kernel ? I didn't find anything regarding this in ubuntu or linux recent changelogs. Probably another module on which this one depends got improved.
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