Rtl8187

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Version: 10.3

Situation

You have an USB WLAN adapter that uses the Realtek 8187 (RTL8187) chipset and want to use it in OpenSuSE 10.3. However you cannot compile the kernel module, or when trying to insert the module, you get the following error message:

FATAL: Error inserting rtl8187  (/lib/modules/2.6.22.16-0.2-default/weak-updates/rtl8187.ko): 
Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

The output of dmesg is:

rtl8187: Unknown symbol eeprom_93cx6_multiread
rtl8187: Unknown symbol eeprom_93cx6_read

Procedure

You need to install 2 packages to get this to work:

• rtl8187-kmp-<kernelflavour>-<architecture>
• rt2x00--kmp-<kernelflavour>-<architecture>

After installation you should be able to get use the card by inserting the module by running the following command (as root)

modprobe rtl8187

knetworkmanager should now detect the card can connect to your wireless network.