Back to (almost) Normal
Boy it's been a while! Sorry, but nothing really exciting happened until recently.
I installed 10.2 Alpha 1.
Everything works now. I got 3d support (nice 3d, I might add!) I'm back to playing my favorite games (had to build the devel Wesnoth) and everything. What truly amazed me was the way wireless worked this time. I plugged in my card, and when I booted up, it said "Found new network device RTL8185 a/b/g wireless network adapter". Mine doesn't support a, but close enough. The wireless is my problem this time. It can get signal, and accurately shows how much signal it has, but it still can't connect correctly! In KWifiManager, it shows the channel moving constantly, until I tell it in the settings to use my ssid. Then it locks on to channel 6, but I don't have connection. What I mean by this is that KWifi says that it's connected, there's traffic on the router, but I cannot get and IP. Even if I use dhclient, there's no ip (dhclient keeps not getting any "dhcpoffers" like it does on my eth0). I have reason to believe that this is exactly the same driver that Realtek suggests using (which is in fact a CVS version of the RTL8180-sa whatever driver). I'm thinking, should I try to rebuild? How would I go about using the newer module instead of the prebuilt one? It's amazing that I got this far without any work!
Remember, email me if you have solutions to these problems, please :)
poly-p man
I installed 10.2 Alpha 1.
Everything works now. I got 3d support (nice 3d, I might add!) I'm back to playing my favorite games (had to build the devel Wesnoth) and everything. What truly amazed me was the way wireless worked this time. I plugged in my card, and when I booted up, it said "Found new network device RTL8185 a/b/g wireless network adapter". Mine doesn't support a, but close enough. The wireless is my problem this time. It can get signal, and accurately shows how much signal it has, but it still can't connect correctly! In KWifiManager, it shows the channel moving constantly, until I tell it in the settings to use my ssid. Then it locks on to channel 6, but I don't have connection. What I mean by this is that KWifi says that it's connected, there's traffic on the router, but I cannot get and IP. Even if I use dhclient, there's no ip (dhclient keeps not getting any "dhcpoffers" like it does on my eth0). I have reason to believe that this is exactly the same driver that Realtek suggests using (which is in fact a CVS version of the RTL8180-sa whatever driver). I'm thinking, should I try to rebuild? How would I go about using the newer module instead of the prebuilt one? It's amazing that I got this far without any work!
Remember, email me if you have solutions to these problems, please :)
poly-p man
posted by Poly-p man at 6:49 AM
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