438974 – Add kernel module for WiFi on MSI Wind

Bug 438974 - Add kernel module for WiFi on MSI Wind

Summary: Add kernel module for WiFi on MSI Wind

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	openSUSE 11.1
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Kernel (show other bugs)
Version:	Beta 3
Hardware:	i586 Other

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Enhancement with 11 votes (vote)
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Assignee:	Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Reported:	2008-10-25 13:15 UTC by Forgotten User JoZGrGEMhM
Modified:	2008-12-19 16:19 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Found By:	Beta-Customer
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lspci -v (7.61 KB, text/plain) 2008-10-28 01:27 UTC, Forgotten User JoZGrGEMhM	Details
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Description Forgotten User JoZGrGEMhM 2008-10-25 13:15:41 UTC

MSI Wind netbooks have WiFi controller Realtek 8187se and vanila kernel dont have module for se version of 8187, but module for 2.6.27 kernel exist under GPL here: http://code.google.com/p/msi-wind-linux/

Any chance to get wifi on this popular netbook out of the box?

Comment 1 Forgotten User qMyteedNxa 2008-10-26 17:24:21 UTC

yes please!
i also have a msi wind and i think i will try opensuse on that soon.

Comment 2 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2008-10-27 16:53:52 UTC

Hm, I thought this was added already for 11.1, can you please provide the output of 'lspci -v' as an attachment to this bug so that I can try to verify this?

Comment 3 Forgotten User JoZGrGEMhM 2008-10-28 01:27:59 UTC

Created attachment 248227 [details]
lspci -v

lspci -v made on MSI Wind U90x under KDE4 LiveCD 11.1 Beta3

rtl8187.ko inxluded in 2.6.27 kernel supports only 8187 and 8187b adapters, but not 8187se

Comment 4 Jordi Canton 2008-12-02 20:02:34 UTC

Please, I think that with the success of this notebooks to have this driver is a MUST. (specially since some of them are shipped with SLED).
My Ahtec LUG (MSI Wind clone), have the same problem.

Comment 5 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2008-12-02 20:14:33 UTC

I'm not disagreeing with you, it's in my queue...

Comment 6 andrea florio 2008-12-02 22:35:01 UTC

+ 1 for me

Comment 7 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2008-12-05 23:24:43 UTC

Now added, will be in the next kernel update.

Comment 8 Jordi Canton 2008-12-19 12:00:04 UTC

Hello,

Just downloaded and installed opensuse 11.1 (i586 DVD version) Released yesterday but the wifi still not working :(.

I'm not sure If I have to wait till a kernel update for 11.1 or if is something wrong

Comment 9 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2008-12-19 16:19:39 UTC

Yes, sorry, it missed the DVD 11.1 kernel release, but will be in the next update.

If you don't want to wait for that (don't know when it will be, probably a few weeks at the earliest), you can install it from the kernel-of-the-day, which can be found at:
  http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/HEAD/