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Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: wireless: wlan0's up, but no access points visible (RTL8187B)[SOLVED]

mebe a little off-topic but...

am thinking about getting one of these 2640's. the new draft n range sounds great, but still a bit pricey methinks compared to the old g-range.

but what is the wireless signal like on the 2640? would you be able to service a double-story house and maybe some family in the garden flat?

You may want to start a new topic for this. You are more likely to attract replies.

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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: wireless: wlan0's up, but no access points visible (RTL8187B)[SOLVED]

This works:

http://www.datanorth.net/%7Ecuervo/rtl8187b/

(rtl8187b-modified-jadams-2-1-2008.tar.gz)

Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

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Re: wireless: wlan0's up, but no access points visible (RTL8187B)[SOLVED]

Still better solution (an old one, revisited; quite satisfactory, at last) :

here

For me it works with Win98 driver only; turned out to be the only catch . Otherwise it's a piece of cake: netcfg2 and WPA present no problem at all. Just ten minutes of work, if you know the ropes, that is .

P.S. I don't know if it's relevant, but the BIOS has been updated to 5.40, WinXP

Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: wireless: wlan0's up, but no access points visible (RTL8187B)[SOLVED]

Good news: the native support for RTL8187B in the kernel 2.6.27.4 works.