21Dec Toshiba L40 + Ndiswrapper + Realtek 8187
After more than three hour googling and trying, I’ve found the right way to get wireless to my brand new Toshiba L40. There was some weird workaround, with a modified driver, but it wasn’t very clean, and I need WPA support. After all, it all got to this:
Download the driver from Realtek site;
Install Ndiswrapper: sudo [...]
30Sep Ndiswrapper and SMC USB Wireless Adapters
Today I had the roughest Ubuntu installation ever. The problem was the lack of documentation to get ndiswrapper and SMC adapters working. After some reading and trying, I’ve figured out the solution:
Edit /etc/modprob.d/blacklist and add:
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist islsm
blacklist prism54usb
Edit /etc/modules and add:
ndiswrapper
After this, download the Windows driver, extract it to a folder and do the following:
sudo [...]