Getting wireless to work on MSI Wind

[linuxhopper]

Vector Linux 6-Light does not detect either my ethernet card or my wireless. I am using an MSI Wind U100 netbook with Realtek rtl8187se wifi card. I do not know the eth card but it's also from Realtek. Could anyone help me out?

[Chadi]

Hi

I'm a new VL user too, just installed VL Light 6 on a LG X110, which is a rebranding netbook of the U100 with UMTS. It has a RTL8187se wireless module too.

The ethernet card has been detected out of the box, no problem here.
To install the RTL8187se driver:
- be sure you installed the development tools and the kernel sources when installing your VL Light.
- download the sources from here.
- decompress the archive with the command "tar -xvf".
- compile it by moving to the new folder and typing "make".
- install it by entering as root "make install".
- reboot.
- run the wicd client, in preferences, set wlan0 as wireless interface.
- you're done, just set your ssid and passphrase in wicd.

Thanks folks for VL Light, I'm discovering it right now
Bonne journée.

[linuxhopper]

Hi

I'm a new VL user too, just installed VL Light 6 on a LG X110, which is a rebranding netbook of the U100 with UMTS. It has a RTL8187se wireless module too.

The ethernet card has been detected out of the box, no problem here.
To install the RTL8187se driver:
- be sure you installed the development tools and the kernel sources when installing your VL Light.
- download the sources from here.
- decompress the archive with the command "tar -xvf".
- compile it by moving to the new folder and typing "make".
- install it by entering as root "make install".
- reboot.
- run the wicd client, in preferences, set wlan0 as wireless interface.
- you're done, just set your ssid and passphrase in wicd.

Thanks folks for VL Light, I'm discovering it right now
Bonne journée.

Thanks very much indeed. I'll follow your instructions and post some feedback here.