[tlinux-users:08800] Re: TOSHIBA L40 REALTEK 8187B WLAN USB2 problem

Hi Christopher,

ndiswrapper with Win98 (!!) drivers solve the problem.
This is documented on ndiswrapper page also.

If you need further information or example config files (I use SuSE 10.3
though) I will galdly help.

Cheers
Ekim Maurer-Engin

On Mi, 2008-01-23 at 10:04 +0000, Christopher George wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I turn to you in the hope of you can help my problem. We have a
> Toshiba L40 laptop in the family on which I installed Ubuntu v7.10. My
> biggest problem is that I am unable to connect to the wireless network
> with the laptop in Ubuntu although everything works fine in Windows. 
> 
> Unfortunately I couldn`t find any drivers for the RTL8187B WLAN device
> on your site for Linux therefore had to use ndiswrapper and the XP
> driver. So far I have managed to tell Ubuntu to detect my WLAN card
> but cannot connect to my router. 
> 
> Any help is much appreciated!
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Chris
> 
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