[NTLUG:Discuss] Does Windows from a partitioning focus control Linux compatibility issues
Ralph Green
sfreader at sbcglobal.net
Sun Jul 31 14:56:22 CDT 2011
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 01:01 -0500, charles shultz jr wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Allen <chef11994 at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ralph I truly appreciate that very informative reply and while attempt to digest it let me > send you the results of lspci
> > in hopes that with this info you might add some other needed info.
> > The one thing I can handle well is gparted and I do have recovery disks should I want to
> > get back to out of the box staging.
> > My druthers is a latest addition of Suse, stay with Ubuntu and then just kind of play
> > around and explore. Its my hobby so to speak.
> > Could you as well comment why in installing Suse I must do it with acpi=off.
> > Again thank you
> > ...
> > 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8172 (rev 10)
> > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI
> > Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)
> > allen at allen-laptop:~$
Allen,
For some reason, I did not get this message from you to the list, but
in this case, it is a good thing Charles did not trim his quote well. I
looked at your lspci output. Your have a Realtek 8172 wireless chip. I
don't know the reason it is not more directly supported, but it looks
like you have to download and compile the driver for this chip. You
will need to hook up to the wired ethernet while you are going through
this process. There is a pretty good description of the process at:
http://www.linwik.com/wiki/using+the+realtek+8172+and+8192se+wireless
+controller+with+ubuntu+10.04
That url should all be on one line. Make sure you get it all. You
will be going to the Realtek page to download drivers. The drivers say
they are for the RTL8192SE, but the wiki says they also work for the
8172. If you are install on Ubuntu Maverick or Natty, you want the
driver for 2.6.35 (and later). If you are installing on an earlier
Ubuntu, you want the driver for 2.6.34 (and earlier)
The latest version of Suse would also use the driver for 2.6.35 (and
later), if you need to install it. I like the latest OpenSuse pretty
well, too.
I see a number of distros don't include these drivers. I don't know if
there is a license problem, or if there is a stability problem. I see
this is a Wireless N chip and I think there was some delay in getting
wireless N drivers source code released under reasonable licenses for
some manufacturers. This is speculation, but my guess is that is the
reason it did not work out of the box. Anyway, I see good reports on
people using the drivers after they download, compile and install.
If you decide you don't want to go to this trouble, you could look at
getting a replacement wireless nic card. I think your machine uses
Mini-PCIe. Can you confirm that?
Good luck,
Ralph
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