Ubuntu with Satellite L40-17R (2)
May 1, 2008
Now my laptop is Ubuntu-based as I said before. Now, let’s check if everything is working or not. unlike my previous experience with Linux on laptops, where ACPI options should be disabled to enable some functions like networking, this time, ACPI options is not needed to be disabled for such reason. Just install ubuntu and everything works well.
However, the problem appeared with ubuntu is the wireless. The Toshiba Satellite L40-17R comes with RealTek 8187B wireless card. This card is not supported yet by ubuntu and needed to be defined.
Many topic on forums regarding RealTek 8187B, but for the USB version, which needs ndiswrapper with Win98 driver to define it. However, this is not successful for me.
After two days of search, I end up that I have to download generic driver, compile it and install it, so I went that way.
I downloaded a driver, and started to compile it, but the problem is in the 8.04 LTS, there is an error with Linux-Headers, which cause compilation to fail !!!.
It always display the error message:
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic’
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c’, needed by `arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s’. Stop.
make[1]: *** [prepare0] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic’
make: *** [modules] Error 2
I tried to search for a solution, but no solution till now. Even the kernel compilation failed for me !!.
Hence, I decided to get back to ubuntu 7.10 again !!!
…. To be continued
