On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:07:12PM -0600, Preston Boyington wrote: > (A205-S5809). installing Debian was quick and far easier than i hadt ... > can anyone help with this? so far dmesg doesn't show any wlan devices
1. lspci -vvv 2. lookup vendor's tech specs/website 3. check www.realtek.com.tw 4. check the *mobile*linux* sites for other's experiences Realtek's wifi chips are not listed in pci_ids in kernel, and they're used to provide blob good only for some ref. kernel version they used to compile it. Very likely your better option will be ndiswrapper. -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x3A47DE45 - B5F9 AAA0 44BD 2B63 81E0 971F C6C0 0B87 3A47 DE45 - 9/11: the outrageous deception and ongoing coverup: http://911review.org - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
