Re: Ubuntu Breezy, Toshiba Satalite 2595CDT, Realtek RTL8185 WiFi card not recognized
"Chuck Langenberg" <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:55:02 -0800
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Vincent, like you, I had issues getting a RealTek chipset working with Ubuntu 5.10 (the latest). Mine is a PCMCIA WI-FI by Linksys, identified as RTL8180L. I will keep an eye on this thread to see if you find a resolution for the RealTek chipset on Ubuntu. FYI, a couple of weeks ago I purchased an Air Link 101 (Frys house brand) on sale @ about US$20. The card has an Atheros AR5212 802.11abg chipset. Beware, I've been advised Frys & others change chipsets all the time. But the box had "Atheros" written all over it, so I was comfortable. I think Frys had PCI boards with Atheros chipsets competitively priced too. As far as Ubuntu 5.10: After the "lspci" command recognized & identified the Atheros PCMCIA card. Ubuntu configured the Atheros chipset, there was no need to enter commands. >From the menu; System / Administration / Networking / Wireless connection / Properties / Enable this connection / choose a network / I chose DHCP. Incidentally, SLAX Live Distro 5.0.6 has Atheros configured by default too. But Ubuntu seems more solid to me. Warm regards, Chuck Langenberg > Vincent L. Damewood said... ...I'd like to get WiFi working on this [Ubuntu] system... ...[the chipset] identified as: Realtek RTL8185 PCI/Cardbus 802.11g 54M Wireless LAN Network Interface Card... _______________________________________________ PDXLUG (a Portland Linux user group) mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug & #orlug