Comments on: Getting a RealTek 8185 Wireless card to work in Ubuntu

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:54:48 +0000

Thanks! I just got an Addon GWK150v4, which uses this chipset, so that I could breathe some life into my dad’s ancient laptop. These instructions worked great!

By: jim

jim — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:35:43 +0000

Cool. Glad it worked for you!

By: Chris@Heathrow

Chris@Heathrow — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:35:21 +0000

This problem was causing headaches!
10% or so connection was driving me mad (and within 10 feet of the access point!). Ndiswrapper/you instructions worked a treat. Happy happy happy.
Thanks Jim, much appreciated.

By: morfam

morfam — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:33:34 +0000

It sounds like you’ve figured it out but can you put it even more simply? I’m very new at this. I down loaded ndiswrapper – then… open a terminal? how. I’d like to give ubuntu a real try but I need wireless to do so. I have a Gateway with an internal realtek 8185 wireless card. Thanks

By: rmac

rmac — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:58:37 +0000

Nevermind…I took the card out and rebooted…after reboot, I went to system/administration/windows wireless drivers and installed new driver.

For whatever reason, it worked…the driver showed up but showed card not installed (correct).

I shut down, installed the card and rebooted. All is well!!!

By: rmac

rmac — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:27:34 +0000

When I enter the following in terminal:

sudo ndiswrapper -i net8185.inf

I get the following:

couldn’t open net8185.inf: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-1.9 line 219

I don’t get it…what next?

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:47:15 +0000

That works perfectly!!
I want to buy you some ice cream!!

By: Matias

Matias — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:24:39 +0000

Now you are my GOD, thanks a lot xD

By: ender

ender — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:34:00 +0000

thank you so much, i wish i found this post earlier, i tried so many times. I also might add that i was originally trying with ubuntu 8.04 amd64 version, and when i went to the i386 it seemed to work better. thanks again.

By: Roy van Arem

Roy van Arem — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:26:48 +0000

I got it working, but every time I restart my PC I have to repeat sudo modprobe ndiswrapper because somehow the information doesn’t get stored. How can I get it working in such a way I don’t have to repeat the last step every time I start my computer?