Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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Hi Jeff,

On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> I have checked, and ndiswrapper and  the rtl8187 package were uninstalled.
> I think that the problem I have may be more basic.
>
> The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187.  I wonder if this is part of the
> problem.  Could it be that the kernel driver does not support the 8197?
>
> The attached weblink suggests that this may be the case:
> http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2007/09/26/no-more-vista/
>
> Does anyone know how I can locate the equivalent code in the kernel and
> perhaps perform a similar modification?

(can you please stop top-posting, it makes reading of threads difficult in 
this mailing list).

Your device may still be supported by the driver.  The problem may exist with 
the wpa_supplicant.  You could try commenting out the wpa_supplicant in 
your /etc/conf.d/net file and using net-wireless/wireless-tools instead.  
Then try again to see if it a)finds the access point (try iwlist wlan0 
scanning), b)associates with it (try iwlist wlan0 accesspoint) .  Of course 
you will need to remove WPA from the AP.  Should all this succeed you can 
work your way up from there.

PS.  I haven't managed to make wpa_supplicant work with my device rt2570usb 
for more than a year now, but haven't tried recently.
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Regards,
Mick

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