wireless rtl8187 driver

[cactusbin]

I am trying to get my wireless to work in Lunar Linux. The driver I need to use is 'rtl8187'. I found that it was not included at all in Lunar, even though it's included in Ubuntu. So I copied the .ko file from Ubuntu to Lunar and add it to the modules.dep file. I then try to enable it with lmodule, but it doesn't work. I also try to enable it with depmod rtl8187 and it returns something about xx needing to be xxx, so I change it in the file and try it again. But this time it returns something about not being the right format or something. How can I install this module?

Thanks,
DJ

[engelsman]

One of the disadvantages of being a small distro is that it isn't easy to cover all of the hardware bases. The devs can only provide what they can really test themselves. However, the advantage of Lunar is that you can do it yourself relatively easily and contribute back to the community.

I just typed rtl8187 into Google and found http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/ Does this help you at all? (The search also reveals some gotchas when working with Gentoo, so you might need to read more than the link given to get the whole picture)

My wifi is handled by the madwifi (or madwifi-svn) module. Maybe you can use this as the basis for a new rtl8187 module in your zlocal. The documentation site has Module Basics and Module Writing and Module Guidelines pages. There's also one on Submitting Modules but if you are running theedge then it's as easy as lvu submit module.

Good luck.