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2008 Sep 12
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CentOS 5 on an MSI Wind U100 Netbook && RTL8187 wireless card configuration
...it. I
published my detailed install notes (in French, but the Linux bits are
universal :oD), since it seems to be a quite popular bit of hardware:
http://www.microlinux.fr/article.php3?id_article=47
There's one exception though: the wireless card is a Realtek RTL8187
(which lspci lists as RTL8199 Unknown device). I must have tried about
ten different drivers out there, none of them worked (MSI only published
precompiled kernel modules for SuSE Linux Enterprise 10, go figure). The
ndiswrapper solution didn't work either: the Windows driver loaded OK,
but no signal. I tried the dkms-r...