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Wireless drivers for MSI Wind U100

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Arthur Barlow

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Aug 28, 2008, 11:50:13 AM8/28/08
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I recently bought an MSI Wind U100 notebook with Windows XP and
partitioned the hard drive in half so I could also run GNU/Linux. The
notebook uses a Realtek RT8101E chipset for it's WLAN. Does anyone know
if there is an open source driver for this chip?


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Celejar

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Aug 28, 2008, 12:10:16 PM8/28/08
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:28:01 -0700
Arthur Barlow <arthur...@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I recently bought an MSI Wind U100 notebook with Windows XP and
> partitioned the hard drive in half so I could also run GNU/Linux. The
> notebook uses a Realtek RT8101E chipset for it's WLAN. Does anyone know
> if there is an open source driver for this chip?

Please post the relevant lspci output.

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Arthur Barlow

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Aug 29, 2008, 1:00:11 PM8/29/08
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Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:28:01 -0700
> Arthur Barlow <arthur...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> I recently bought an MSI Wind U100 notebook with Windows XP and
>> partitioned the hard drive in half so I could also run GNU/Linux. The
>> notebook uses a Realtek RT8101E chipset for it's WLAN. Does anyone know
>> if there is an open source driver for this chip?
>
> Please post the relevant lspci output.
>
> Celejar
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lspci is as follows:

00:00.0 Host bridge : Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory
Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME
Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME,
943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface
Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA
IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E
PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8199
(rev 02)

Celejar

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Aug 29, 2008, 1:20:07 PM8/29/08
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:38:59 -0700
Arthur Barlow <arthur...@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Celejar wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:28:01 -0700
> > Arthur Barlow <arthur...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I recently bought an MSI Wind U100 notebook with Windows XP and
> >> partitioned the hard drive in half so I could also run GNU/Linux. The
> >> notebook uses a Realtek RT8101E chipset for it's WLAN. Does anyone know
> >> if there is an open source driver for this chip?
> >
> > Please post the relevant lspci output.
> >
> > Celejar

...

> lspci is as follows:

...

> 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E
> PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8199
> (rev 02)

You have confused the LAN with the WLAN; the 8101 is the LAN, and the
8199 is the WLAN. The 8199 is apparently a variant of the 8187, and
*may* work with the 818x open source drivers:

Here's a page about a similar MSI Wind machine:

http://forums.msiwind.net/general-discussion/realtek-8199-linux-wireless-t1591.html

and see also these:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/ubuntu-8.04-realtek-8187-on-tishiba-a215-s7414-652951/page3.html#post3233929
http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/
http://rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page

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