[gNewSense-users] RTL8185 Wireless Driver

[Anthony Patarini]

Hi all,

I'm running gNewSense on a Gateway MX3414 Laptop, and most things work 
great (well, no sound or 3D, but those are problems on Ubuntu as well). 
The one difference between Ubuntu and gNewSense that I've seen, however, 
is that my wireless card isn't recognized by gNewSense. The chipset is 
the realtek 8185 and I'm trying to get the rtl818x driver from 
http://rtl818x.sourceforge.net/ installed. The driver is completely Free 
(GPL with no firmware) but the installation docs are lean at best. I've 
managed to get past the "make" stage easy enough (just needed kernel 
headers) but when I attempt to run the ifup-wlan0 script I get a 
"wlan0      No such device" error. There is mention that I need to edit 
my /etc/network/interfaces file, but nothing is really said as to WHAT 
needs to be added. I'm sure I'm just missing a simple step due to lack 
of experience, so if anyone has any ideas, I'd greatly appreciate 
hearing them.