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tehhi

Member

Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 3

Probles with wireless

Hello,
I have a problem with wireless.

iwconfig.

And I get such result

lo no wireless extention
eth0 no wireless extention

I try to use information from wiki pages
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rtl8187_wireless
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless
and  post of this forum:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43567
but nothing happen

Surgat_

Member

Registered: 2007-08-08

Posts: 317

Re: Probles with wireless

Probably you haven't brought your wireless interface up. Run ifconfig -a and you will see all the interfaces in your system, and ifconfig wlan0 up (or whatever wireless interface you have) will make it shown on iwconfig.

If you don't see any new interfaces with ifconfig -a you need to modprobe your driver with modprobe rtl8187.

After that, I would recommend you to take a look at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_profiles to make it work.

tehhi

Member

Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 3

Re: Probles with wireless

Probably you haven't brought your wireless interface up. Run ifconfig -a and you will see all the interfaces in your system, and ifconfig wlan0 up (or whatever wireless interface you have) will make it shown on iwconfig.

If you don't see any new interfaces with ifconfig -a you need to modprobe your driver with modprobe rtl8187.

After that, I would recommend you to take a look at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_profiles to make it work.

I have loaded the two module with

modprobe --all rtl8187 wlan

And then check

dmesg | grep rtl8187

result:

 usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187

And I think that kernel include rtl8187 driver, because command

zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_RTL8187

have as output:

CONFIG_RTL8187=m

But there is no wireless interface in output of

ifconfig -a

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
    //description
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr
    //description

p.s.
Sorry, for my small language skills

Last edited by tehhi (2008-08-20 12:03:15)