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realtek 8189 wireless internal usb doesn't work

Bug #190266 reported by Freyr Gunnar Ólafsson
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Bug Description

I finally got my father to try out ubuntu on a brand new laptop he bought. There are two serious bugs. I'll also report the other in a seperate bug.
This is a Packard Bell ME35 laptop. The wireless card is a rtl8189 internal usb. Lspci won't show it but lsusb displays:
Bus 006 Device 003: ID 0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

I really wan't this to work "out of the box". I've tried several things I found from google, a hacked 8187b driver ndiswrapper. Nothing worked properly.

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Hadmut Danisch (hadmut) wrote :

Allegedly there's a patch at

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432280

regards

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Philanthropist (phil-benn) wrote :

I also have the same Realtek chipset in a Toshiba Laptop, and the device appears on the USB bus rather than PCI. I too tried all manner of solutions involving Ndiswrapper, use of WinXP drivers/inf files, etc, but nothing would work.

The recent release of the Intrepid Ibex beta has solved this issue for me, as support for RTL8187B seems to be included by default.

Unfortunately I now have a different problem where the wireless connection 'stalls' after 5 minutes use, but only on certain brands of wireless router. However the drivers work fine on the wireless AP at home.

Hopefully the latest release of Ibex will solve your problem too. Tell your dad to give it another go, it's so much faster than the 'market leader' on my AMD64 laptop.

Regards,
Philanthropist.

Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in linux:
status: New → Fix Released
dav. H. Z. (guanghuihao)
description: updated
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