{"id":820,"date":"2008-05-22T22:32:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T03:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2008-05-22T22:32:33","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T03:32:33","slug":"ubuntu-804-and-the-realtek-8185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 8.04 and the Realtek 8185"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) running on Artemis (my desktop), but until a few minutes ago, it had no internet connection, due to lack of drivers for the wifi card in the machine, the Realtek 8185.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m used to not knowing how to do anything on Linux, and usually my attempts to make things work on the open source OS end in failure, so it&#8217;s pretty cool that I figured out how to get this to work.<\/p>\n<p>First, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/mycirilo.com\/?p=24\">this tutorial<\/a> <b>[link dead]<\/b>, which I followed word-for-word, with no results at all. Then I checked my chipset on the wifi card, and realized that the article is for the 8187, not the 8185. So I decided to take a leap of faith, and downloaded <a href=\"ftp:\/\/66.104.77.130\/cn\/wlan\/WinME.zip\">the Win98 drivers for the 8185<\/a> (Win98 because they are the version of the 8187 drivers the tutorial uses), and then followed the tutorial again, but with the new drivers instead of the original ones.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what? It worked. Flawlessly. Artemis now has wifi under Hardy Heron, and I couldn&#8217;t be happier. Now for the graphics card and my mouse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit: If this doesn&#8217;t work, try <a href=\"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=821\">this method<\/a> instead!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) running on Artemis (my desktop), but until a few minutes ago, it had no internet connection, due to lack of drivers for the wifi card in the machine, the Realtek 8185. I&#8217;m used to not knowing how to do anything on Linux, and usually my attempts to make things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,48,35,33],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-computers","tag-life-in-general","tag-links","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}