[Ryedale] old laptop debian installed

[Paul Teasdale]

On 31 Mar 2008, at 12:22, Fintan Gaughan wrote:

> on link you provided
> when i typed
>
> # ndiswrapper -l
> Installed ndis drivers:
> net8180 driver present,
>
>
> but it does not show
> hardware present
>
> its just getting the hardware  switched on as its not lit up.
> so it looks like i disabled it in order to install debain.. but i do
> not know how to after installation.
>
>
> Fintan
>
>

Hi Fintan,

Assuming you have a Realtek chipset and assuming your PCMCIA card is  
detected (try lspci -vvv and look for Ethernet controller) then rather  
than trying to use ndis wrapper you could try these drivers here:

http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/

and here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=114161

Looks like you will need to compile them yourself however.

Regards,
Paul.