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This laptop card isn't working properly for me. I need to change mac address but when İ run the command:
sudo ıfconfıg wlan0 down hw ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XXthe machine hangs and displays lengthy output with lines beginning with
[<ffffffff80475bea>]or similar and ends with
---[ end trace 8127ce07deac8e4a ]---I'm using compat-wıireless drivers. Thıs setup has worked for me previously in Ubuntu.
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sorry for the double post but I thought I should mention that my machıne is up to date as of yesterday (when the wireless connection worked) and also I had to use acpi=off when I installed arch, not sure if that's related but just in case.
I'm at a loss for what to do at the moment since I can't find any info on this problem.
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This chipset should be work out of the box with 2.6.27 kernel. I have the same and works fine.
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Do you have rtl8187 module loaded?
Excuse my poor English.
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yeah I think you're right agapito I needn't have used the compat-wireless stuff. I uninstalled it and loaded the rtl8187 module and it seems to be working perfectly.
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But I'm using it with ndiswrapper and WinXP drivers. Works better. With ndiswrapper i can download 800 KBs with native module only 300 KBs
Last edited by agapito (2008-12-20 11:33:01)
Excuse my poor English.
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hmm yeah after further testing the native driver is a bit dodgy. Can I use 32 bit win xp or vista drivers on my 64-bit install with ndiswrapper?
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NO. Only 32 bits. I tried both, 32 and 64 bits XP Drivers on Archlinux64 and crashes.
I have installed both versions of Arch 32 and 64. With Arch 32 I use ndiswrapper, with 64 bits native module.
Anyways 64 bits systems demands more Memory and performance is not much better than 32 bits.
Excuse my poor English.
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Oh well looks like I'll have to use Arch 32 then. Thanks for the clarification.
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