Thread: How to get drivers for Realtek rtl8187se?

Hello aweiss, The driver for that chipset is not available in Fedora. Maybe someday. You can read what AdamW had to say about that in another thread here . But it is possible to get it working in Fedora with ndiswrapper and a Windows driver. You can read how 1337.HDLA did that in another thread here . Lastly, just in case it matters, Ubuntu and Mandriva have a driver for it.

Hello aweiss Welcome to the forum. I was involved in that second thread that 'stoat' mentions above. It got a bit complicated for all sorts of reasons. If it doesn't make much sense after reading, post back and I'll try and put it in some sort of order for you.

I found a guide on how to use ndiswrapper, but I still don't really understand it and any help would be welcome.

Hello aweiss Ndiswrapper used to be fairly simple, but a problem in recent times is that the precompiled versions from the rpm fusion repositories somtimes installs against the wrong kernel. The first thing to do then is determine which kernel you are running: Code: uname -r in a terminal window will give you all you need to know. Then install the rpmfusion ...

I'll give it a try when I get home

When I unzipped the file I downloaded for windows, a lot of files came out. Which one is the driver file?

I think I went wrong here: [root@localhost ~]# ndiswrapper -i /aweiss/home/Realtek rtl8187se.sys

Then I tried this ndiswrapper -i /aweiss/home/Realtek rtl8187se.inf

Hello aweiss That's the form of the command you should be using: Quote: ndiswrapper -i /aweiss/home/Realtek rtl8187se.inf but you will need all the other files in the same place as the .inf file. Ndiswrapper refers to at least the .sys file as well.

now it keeps saying THIS couldn't open net8187Se.inf: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper line 219.