wireless card TP-Link TL-WN-353 GD on a debian linux, lenny
lspci shows
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)
driver isssues
first, my debian lenny (02/2010) loads the kernel module called 8180.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8180.ko
this driver works, but the signal strengh is shown as not very stable. so i downloaded the proprietary driver.
what i got was:
rtl8185_linux_26.1031.1207.2009.release.tar.gz
after unpacking and entering the directory i had to type a "make" and a "make install" to install the new kernel module:
/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/r8185b.ko
now i had to make sure, that the correct kernel-module is loaded by boot-time.
so i put r8185b into /etc/modules
and to prevent the wrong kernel module to be loaded i hat to wipe out the line
[...] /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8180.ko [...]
in the file
/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/modules.dep
warning: if you run the command depmod this line will be inserted into modules.dep again.
configuring wlan: