Advent 4213 - ubuntu realtek wifi driver

[anomaly]

Dammit, i downloaded updates (about 150 ish), rebooted for them to take effect, and now the wireless doesnt work!?

i tried going through the steps you provided to reinstalled the drivers, but that doesn't seemed to have work.

Is there a way of rolling back the updates, or just the wireless ones?

[ma10]

Originally Posted by anomaly

Dammit, i downloaded updates (about 150 ish), rebooted for them to take effect, and now the wireless doesnt work!?

i tried going through the steps you provided to reinstalled the drivers, but that doesn't seemed to have work.

Is there a way of rolling back the updates, or just the wireless ones?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/246141

reading the latest updates on the above launchpad (where i got the driver) there is some updates on the driver... try downloading the latest suggested driver (dated 28th!)...

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/185338...28.2008.tar.gz

use the same instructions as I mentioned before except with the different filename of the above driver naturally....

[anomaly]

Hey i think the second link in your last post points to the same driver version as before

"rtl8187se_linux_26.1023.0928.2008"

I realised this after compiling and getting no joy.

Looking at the other link u provided to that thread...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/246141

do I just need to download the most recent tar.bz2 file at the bottom of the page?

[ma10]

Originally Posted by anomaly

Hey i think the second link in your last post points to the same driver version as before

"rtl8187se_linux_26.1023.0928.2008"

I realised this after compiling and getting no joy.

Looking at the other link u provided to that thread...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/246141

do I just need to download the most recent tar.bz2 file at the bottom of the page?

oh sorry, prob I did link to the old one but you are correct... download the last one on the bottom of the page.

[anomaly]

hmm, one at the bottom doesn't seem to work, but i've got a feeling thats for intrepid, i think some of the previous ones may be better

[ma10]

no, it shouldn't matter because you're "compiling" the driver to make it work for your ubuntu version.... so if it compiles on your ubuntu, it should be usable on your ubuntu version.

So, can you confirm when you compile the last driver, doesn't it give you any errors?

also, when you type the following in the terminal:

sudo modprobe r8180

can you tell me what message you get?

[anomaly]

The latest driver on that page appears to compile with no errors. (it doesnt automatically reboot like the other ones, so i closed the terminal and restarted in the normal way)

I tried the command you suggested, sudo modprobe r8180:

pete@pete-laptop:~$ sudo modprobe r8180 [sudo] password for pete: FATAL: Error inserting r8180 (/lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/r8180.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) pete@pete-laptop:~$
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on another note, is it possible to just uninstall wubi-ubuntu and reinstall, using the old drivers that worked correctly, then when it prompts to download updates, simply uncheck the wirless updates, or will it mess up the wireless regardless?

[ma10]

I think we are getting into a muddle somewhere... and I think my brain isn't working too well today either!

Anyways, I think if you have compiled a few versions of the driver today then it might be a good idea to uninstall any old versions of it aswell... just in case they are preventing any new installs from taking place....

if you have installed one of those drivers where in the driver folder there was a file called "uninstall" cd into that folder with terminal and run:

sudo sh ./uninstall

This should get rid of any previous versions of the driver and then you can try a fresh install of one of the latest drivers that was on the launchpad....

[anomaly]

Hey, all sorted now, i uninstalled ubuntu using wubi, then reinstalled again. Connected to ethernet and downloaded installed all the updates.

I then used info from this page: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/246141

1- First I removed the following libraries (backing up first of course) based on a comment by marc.milliien in Msi Wind Forums • View topic - I have the wireless drivers BUT.....

sudo rm -rv /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187.ko
sudo rm -rv /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/kernel/net/ieee80211
sudo rm -rv /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/ubuntu/wireless/rtl8187-usb
sudo depmod

Then used these instrustions:

Download, build, and install Coffelius' variant of the rtl8187
# driver. Originally noted in an Oct 17 post to:
# Msi Wind Forums • View topic - I have the wireless drivers BUT..... by coffelius
# The code is available from:
# msi-wind-linux - Google Code # Change this name to get a newer version
name=rtl8187se_linux-04.tar.bz2
dirname=rtl8187se_coffee
# Fetch if needed
if [[ ! -e $name ]]; then

wget http://msi-wind-linux.googlecode.com/files/$name
tar xvjf $name


# Build and load

cd rtl8187se_coffee
./makedrv

sudo ./wlan0down
sudo ./wlan0up

sudo ./install

[ma10]

I'm soooo glad that you got it all working now anomaly!!

Let's just hope that ubuntu can get the drivers integrated or realtek bring out some official driver packages so we don't have to compile them all the time!