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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 13:06:00 No.17270356 View View Reply Original Report

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I'm having a linux problem.
I want to use #!, chakra or even debian, but the only linux OS that reads my wireless is Ubuntu. I can't use ethernet to install drivers because I have no wired internet right now, only wireless. Is there anything I can do to solve this?
Thanks.

My card is Realtek RTL8131SE Wireless LAN
(thats what my device manager says)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 13:17:00 No.17270457 Report

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Bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 13:33:00 No.17270594 Report

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Bumpity again

Darkr !!lg4Z7tvx9nN

Darkr !!lg4Z7tvx9nN Mon 02 May 2011 13:39:00 No.17270647 Report

Quoted By: >>17270728

I don't think that's the right name. Google returns zero results for "RTL8131SE". You said it works in Ubuntu though. Try loading a LiveCD and see if you can get the name (or better yet the driver name) being used.

What's likely happening is that your card is using proprietary firmware. Ubuntu ships with this firmware while many other distros do not. It's a simple fix though. You just need to know what the driver is so you can manually copy the firmware file to the correct directory.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 13:50:00 No.17270728 Report

Quoted By: >>17270760 >>17270843

>>17270647
Thanks for the reply.
I actually just did that.
It's Toshiba satelite L655D-S5050. I went on the Toshiba site and downloaded the windows drivers for the wireless cards. Is it possible to install those on a distro?

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BlueGrey !!JF6GjFfVMoF Mon 02 May 2011 13:53:00 No.17270760 Report

Quoted By: >>17270817

Debian stable and testing repositories are available on sets of DVDs . Of course, the easiest thing to do is to get the drivers and all dependencies on a flash drive and install from there.

>>17270728
With ndiswrapper, it's quite possible that you could. However, you'd want to use a native driver if one is available.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 13:59:00 No.17270817 Report

Quoted By: >>17270838

>>17270760

Thanks, but how would I find out if it has native drivers?

BlueGrey !!JF6GjFfVMoF

BlueGrey !!JF6GjFfVMoF Mon 02 May 2011 14:02:00 No.17270838 Report

Quoted By: >>17270853

>>17270817
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/
For best results, lspci before searching.

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Darkr !!lg4Z7tvx9nN Mon 02 May 2011 14:02:00 No.17270843 Report

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>>17270728

There is ndiswrapper which allows you to run Windows wireless drivers on Linux. I don't recommend it though. The maintainer hasn't been updating it as often so it's very crashy on recent versions of Linux.

I can't seem to find any information on what wireless chipset that laptop uses. This is why I hate manufacturers who hide that information like the plague instead of just listing it on their specs page.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 14:03:00 No.17270853 Report

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>>17270838
Thank you very much =]
I'll check this out.

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