Aircrack Driver Rtl8187_wireless
The r8187 driver works properly for the Realtek RTL8187L chipset. Support for the RTL8187B chipset is under development but is not fully working. See r8187b for the RTL8187B ieee80211 driver. This page only deals with the ieee80211 version of the r8187 driver. Oct 16, 2013 Driver for wireless devices with Realtek 8187L chipset, updated working on Ubuntu 13.04 (Kernel 3.8.0) - Dekadencee/rtl8187-Linux-Driver.
From my readme file: Release Date: 2007-08-22, ver 1.24 RTL8187B Linux driver version 1.24 -This driver supports RealTek RTL8187/RTL8187B Wireless LAN NIC for 2.6 kernel: Fedora Core 2/3/4/5/6/7, Debian 3.1, Mandrake 10.2/Mandriva 2006, SUSE 9.3/10.1/10.2, Gentoo 3.1, etc. 2.4 kernel: Redhat 9.2, etc - Support Client mode for either infrastructure or adhoc mode - Support WEP, WPAPSK and WPA2PSK connection - Looks like yours is even older. Travian kingdoms servers. The kernel driver rtl8187 that comes with Fedora 11 is based on this same code, and causes my usb wireless card to generate a very weak signal (it's 20 dB down from what it should be, measured by the access point I connect to).
The windows xp driver works fine. You can get it to work in modern Fedora by using the Windows XP driver with ndiswrapper, however on mine it locks up unless I recompile the kernel turning off 4k stacks (the windows driver overflows a 4k stack and needs a larger stack). Last edited by JEO; 19th July 2009 at 08:28 AM.
Realtek Rtl8187 Wireless Lan Utility
README.md Realtek 8187L Linux Driver This is the oficial driver of Realtek 8187L chipset, with some modifications and upgrades to work fine in 3.80 Linux kernel.