I am trying to get wifi running on Alpha3 in a Asus eeePC701SDX. Researching these forum pages I was encouraged to see in a few threads that wifi in the 701 does work for some and in a few cases is ‘out-of-the-box’!
I am able to get a wired connection.
I have followed the wireless instructions but when I run ifconfig only loop and wired appear. My card is a Realtek, RTL8187SE(rev22) and this appears in Applications>Devices. I am aware that the success stories could involve eeePC701s with different cards and that my card may not be supported…there are ‘millions’ of 701s out there and there must be a few variations.
This card does not appear in the list of drivers available in the guide.
Am I missing a step and can anybody offer some guidance?
Hello CypressTwist…pleased to hear your result with wifi?
I have not been able to get wifi to work on my 701 so I would like to confirm a few things with you.
Can you tell me the lan network card on your 701? When I type “ifconfig -a” nothing shows for WLAN but a search of Devices shows the Realtek RTL8187SE Wireless Lan Controller.
I suppose the version of Haiku that you are using would be of importance, too?
What type of encryption are you using, and on which version of Haiku?[/quote]
Hello Deejam…my guess is that you are having a similar prob…perhaps you can tell us more about your setup especially what Wireless Lan Controller you have on board?
What type of encryption are you using, and on which version of Haiku?[/quote]
Hello Deejam…my guess is that you are having a similar prob…perhaps you can tell us more about your setup especially what Wireless Lan Controller you have on board?
Are you only having trouble with encryption???[/quote]
I do not own an Eee myself. I’m asking because I’m trying to gather more information about wifi issues for a bug ticket I created.
The realtek cards are not very well supported. Try an eeePC with an atheros card (i gutted a 701 for it’s wifi card so my 901 could have wireless under Haiku)
My ‘machine’ is described as a Asus eeePC 700SDX…in eeePC701 terms, this is a fairly recent product sans the camera…and doesn’t seem to be listed on the Wiki. The card doesn’t seem to appear on the BSD list.
Yep, like I thought you have a network card that is not supported by BSD either.
Haiku uses a FreeBSD network layer. Most of the network drivers are from FreeBSD with a couple of native Haiku network drivers. Haiku uses the latest release which today is 8.2.
No wifi card support in Haiku for RTL8187SE until BSD makes a driver for your wifi card (ie, without using ndiswrapper).
You can also try FreeBSD and use their forums to get more information and double check that your wifi is not working on BSD OS either.
