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How to install Runtu 3.0 or Ubuntu 8.04 on Toshiba Satellite L300-11E - solution

Toshiba Satellite L300-11E PSLBCE is an excellent budget laptop for ridiculous money, it comes without an operating system, which means especially for those who prefer open source software! Runtu 3 (www.runtu.org) is perfect for him !!!

It remains to fix one annoying little thing - the lack of a wireless network drivers for Linux.

Everything else works with a bang. So let's get started!
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The main problem - wi-fi on RTL 8187B chip from Realtek does not work

1. For ubuntu 8.04 - before starting to turn off the LAN through the BIOS (press F2 when turning on, find the LAN - Disable)

and do not forget to include after installation on the disk.

For Runtu 3 beta, everything was installed and so, it was installed without any problems by choosing “Install” when booting from the LiveCD.

Only the WLAN adapter RTL8187B does not work.

2. Then download the driver here this rtl8187b-modified-804.tar.gz

you can from here linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/eng/pc/x/rtl8187b-modified-804.tar.gz .

Download to home folder!

3. Unpack there and copy to the root / wifi:

tar -xvzf rtl8187b-modified-804.tar.gz

sudo mkdir /wifi

cd rtl8187b-modified

sudo cp -r * /wifi

cd /wifi


4. And now there will be a trick to finalize the driver with a file. =).

Give the command “lsusb | grep Realtek” and watch its output. I gave out numbers there

... 0bda: 8198 Realtek ...

You need to Remember the last 4 digits and correct 2 files:

/wifi/rtl8187/r8187_core.c
/wifi/rtl8187/r8187_core.c.orig

find 0x8189 in them and replace with our 4 digits - I will have 0x8198

To replace, I used "mc" - in it we find our files, we rule them by F4, and once again F4 is the replacement function.

Each file will have only 2 replacements.

5. Next, create a driver and turn it on.

cd /wifi

sudo ./makedrv
sudo ./wlan0up


Everything! The network has to earn.



We register its launch at system startup:

add these lines to the /etc/rc.local file before the exit 0 line:

/wifi/wlan0up

ifconfig wlan0 up

dhclient wlan0

exit 0




Add 2 lines in / etc / network / interfaces

edit - sudo nano / etc / network / interfaces

after which this file should look like this:

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

pre-up /wifi/wlan0up

post-down /wifi/wlan0down


Save and reboot!

You can check it like this:
ifconfig

iwconfig


wlan0 should be visible at the output, and a list of visible networks appears in the Network Manager icon.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/37875/

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