I have the same very weak signal isuue on my realtek 8187 too.I am using ndiswrapper win 98 driver now and the wireless siganl will be broken if distance from the router to the notebook more than 3 metres, making the wlan completely useless.The native driver came from Ubuntu 8.10 kernel 2.6.27-11 is even worst. Connection hangs/lose randomly and adding an extra letter as a suffix to ESSID doesn't work. Signal is as weak as using ndiswrapper win 98 driver.But in Windows XP it just works great.The wifi is driving me crazy. I seeked help from ubuntuforums, still cannot find a solution. Glad that I find out this bugpage. Wish that all buddies with realtek 8187 group together toshare experience and hope that finally can find a solution.
In Jaunty there is a driver which shows full (i.e. normal) signal. However it can only be used by activating linux-backports-modules-jaunty-generic in your package manager - I don't know whether this raises other issues in terms of stability.
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But Rosewill - the manufacturer of my rtl8187l usb stick - was still including his work on their driver CD and the same story goes for the Realtek driver download website. I was unable to get his driver to compile when I tried back in Sept. 08.
Finally, thank you Thomas and the System76 team for the awesome and free "powered by ubuntu linux" sticker that has replaced the Windows Vista nonsense on my laptop! Glad to hear you've found a solution to your rtl8187B chipset issues.
When you say it "wiped" out the older rtl8187 driver, that means the find+grep command I mentioned above only shows one .ko file? (namely r8187.ko or something like that?) Perhaps re-installing your linux kernel package should bring it back -- assuming that's how it was originally installed. (Or maybe there is a separate rtl8187 ubuntu package?)
root @ bum-laptop: / # make clean home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.releasemake [1]: Leaving directory `/ home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release/rtl8187 'rm-fr *. mod.c *. mod *. o .*. cmd *. ko * rm-fr. tmp_versionsrm-fr Module.symversrm-fr modules.orderrm-fr Module.markers"rm-rf tagsmake [1]: Leaving directory `/ home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release/rtl8187 'make [1]: Leaving directory `/ home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release/ieee80211 'rm-f *. mod.c *. mod *. o .*. cmd *. ko * rm-rf / home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release/ieee80211/tmprm-fr Module.symversrm-fr modules.orderrm-fr Module.markersmake [1]: Leaving directory `/ home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release/ieee80211 'root @ bum-laptop: / # home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.releaseroot @ bum-laptop: / # make home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.releasemake [1]: Leaving directory `/ usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-9-generic ' CC [M] / home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.o/ home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c: In function 'ieee80211_send_beacon':/ home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c: 278: warning: unused variable 'flags' CC [M] / home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.o CC [M] / home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.o CC [M] / home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release/ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.o CC [M] / home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.o/ home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c: In function 'alloc_ieee80211_rtl':/ home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c: 123: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'hard_start_xmit'make [2]: *** [/ home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.o] Error 1make [1]: *** [_module_/home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release/ieee80211] Error 2make [1]: Leaving directory `/ usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-9-generic 'make: *** [all] Error 2root @ bum-laptop: / # cd .. home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.releaseroot @ bum-laptop: / home / bang / driver # cd rtl8187L_linux_26.1037.1217.2008_release /root @ bum-laptop: / home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1037.1217.2008_release #. / makedrvrm-f *. mod.c *. mod *. o .*. cmd *. ko * rm-rf / home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1037.1217.2008_release/ieee80211/tmpmake-C / M = lib/modules/2.6.31-9-generic/build / home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1037.1217.2008_release/ieee80211 CC = gcc modulesmake [1]: Leaving directory `/ usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-9-generic ' CC [M] / home/bum/sterown...
khuner: Enable the Jaunty Backports repository and install the backported kernel modules package (it's called something like "linux-generic-modules-jaunty-backports") and this enables a better driver.
I just installed archlinux for the first time after using ubuntu for a while. My goal is to install gnome but ofcours internet has to be active. Before installing Arch I wanted to be prepared for my wireless usb dongle to install. So I searched and found a wiki on arch about the rtl8187. But to great to be true.After modprobe rtl.. I have to rmmod it and modprobe again. Then I wlan0 up it to have my wlan0 show up. Scanning works great then. Then I doiwconfig wlan0 essid "sdfs sfs sf" key s:key (s: = ascii key)
Are these drivers included working, if not why are they in the kernel??? (sorry kinda sick of this usb dongle rtl8187 issue) I got it working in ubuntu 8.04.1 after a hassle, but I had the advantage having gnome default. Archlinux's pacman can't fetch gnome/kde/.. obviously without internet connectivity.I just want Archlinux + gnome + internet
Wel, in the windows environment the drivers are working as they should, stable and good power. Issues you says... I began to use this dongle piece of crap with ubuntu 7.10 x64 and I had to search for a while till I bumped into the wiki page from aircrack, concerning this chipset. It worked however power wasn't as it was like on the other side. Ubuntu LTS/8.10 the same thing excerpt some line had to be adjusted because it was a wrong link. But eventually it works not so powerful. Archlinux isn't working at the moment, that's what I basically doing here, tryin to figure it out...It is actually on channel 12, I'll adjust it to 10. And no I didn't try netcfg2, because I thought its the same with cmdline meth, but I'll give it a shot. I guess back to the frontline I mean commandline. 2ff7e9595c
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