Problems with wireless

[Hippytaff]

Can you tell me what drivers you have installed...I think we need to go back to the original state of the wireless. lsmod and your blacklist.conf file would be worth seeing again because I don't know where we are with what drivers have been installed etc etc

[TBABill]

Ok, I'm not positive, but shouldn't this be listed in lsmod as "rtl8187se", not "r8187se"? If so, it could be a simple update of /etc/modules to concatenate (#) the r8187 listing and below it add rtl8187se, then restart.

Thoughts? Please advise if I'm off base on this one, but that original lsmod listed it as r8187se.

What made me ask is it is listed http://wiki.debian.org/rtl818x as rtl8187se and they even modprobe rtl8187se to enable the driver.

[Hrexen]

Can you tell me what drivers you have installed...I think we need to go back to the original state of the wireless. lsmod and your blacklist.conf file would be worth seeing again because I don't know where we are with what drivers have been installed etc etc

Now it's installed driver downloaded from Gateway support centre. Folder is named VistaX86, and has three files: net8187se.cat, net8187Se.inf, rtl8187Se.sys.
Maybe the problem is with Net. Manager applet, it doesn't show anything except Wired Network.

[Hippytaff]

TBABill might have something there

Though in a different thread replacing Network Manager with WICD seemd to resolve the unresolvable

[Hrexen]

When I wrote ifconfig wlan0 up:
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

It seems wicd doesn't help.

[TBABill]

I'm at a loss. I think you need to get back to square one and go after only ONE path to get it working. If you want to use ndiswrapper, then do so till you get it working. If you want to use a native Linux driver, then do the same. Going in multiple directions is going to create a mess in your drivers and will be even more difficult to fix.

[Hrexen]

modprobe r8187se returns:

FATAL: Error inserting r8187se (/lib/modules/2.6.35-28-generic/kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8187se.ko): Operation not permitted

I'll try again from very beginning.

[TBABill]

That would have been

sudo modprobe rtl8187se

[Hrexen]

That would have been

sudo modprobe rtl8187se

answer for this is

FATAL: Module rtl8187se not found.

[TBABill]

Is it blacklisted? If it is it needs to be un-blacklisted, then probably a restart and try again.