Wireless issues.......

[Vrekk]

Ok so my netbook has the RTL8187B wireless driver (worst card for linux support i have used yet). I installed Jolicloud on it (UNR based) and it has very CRAPY support for the wireless driver. I sloved this problem once on Ubuntu by installing the modied driver and it worked fine after that. But i CANT get it running in Jolicloud! So this is a two part problem.

One: How do i find out what driver it is using right now so i can disable it

Two: I keep getthing is problem when i try to build the driver i get this
make
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.30-4-jolicloud/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [all] Error 2

(PS i did install build-essentials)

[Zeroangel]

I'm guessing that you're trying to compile a kernel right?

You can try copying over the kernel modules from your current kernel to the kernel you are trying to compile by running a command like:

sudo cp /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build /lib/modules/2.6.30-4-jolicloud/build

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Additionally you can try to get your hands on an 'in development' version of the jolicloud kernel. Sometimes beta testing a new version of the distro is helpful since 'new' drivers tend to get compiled into the distros kernels as soon as they're made available.

Of course this is assuming that you can handle a breakage or two along the way (I beta tested Ubuntu dapper and Kubuntu edgy -- Dapper had no problem but with Edgy I had to spend 5 hours fixing the X server after it broke due to an upgrade -- and there was another, less-severe breakage which took a couple hours to fix -- had I not been an experienced linux user it mightve taken longer)

[Vrekk]

I wish it were that easy. One im not trying to compile my own kernel, (may resort to that later), and two, i am using the Alpha of the distro, there isnt a final build out yet

[waterhead]

That driver should already be in the kernel, unless your distro has removed it.

You appear to be trying to compile the driver from source. You will need to install these things first:

linux-source (kernel source)
linux-headers-<kernel version>

The driver is also part of the compat-wireless driver package. You can download the source from here:

Download - Linux Wireless

[Vrekk]

Ok thats what i needed the headers. And the normal rtl8187 driver dose not work well with the rtl8187b card, so i was installing a modified one to improve performance. Im pretty sure its working right. Thanks for the help

[waterhead]

Where did you get the modified driver from? It may help other people with the same wireless.

[Vrekk]

www(dot)datanorth(dot)net/~cuervo/blog/rtl8187b-drivers-and-patches/
(Sry the site wont let me post a URL until I have 15 or more posts )
The site says that >2.6.27 has full card support, but its really just improved support.

[Vrekk]

BTW for anyone else doing this, it helps if you delete the old modules for rtl8187 before you make and install this one