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RTL8187 Driver install problem.

Hi, all

I just downloaded the rtl8180 driver from sourceforge and extracted the contents to a directory on my desktop, i read the install document which said use "make" and so i did, and came up with the following problems.

Code:

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2174_FC5/build SUBDIRS=/home/neo/Desktop/rtl8180-0.21 MODVERDIR=/home/neo/Desktop/rtl8180-0.21 modules

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2174_FC5-x86_64'

scripts/Makefile.build:17: /home/neo/Desktop/rtl8180-0.21/Makefile: No such file or directory

make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/home/neo/Desktop/rtl8180-0.21/Makefile'. Stop.

make[1]: *** [_module_/home/neo/Desktop/rtl8180-0.21] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2174_FC5-x86_64'

make: *** [2.6] Error 2

after this, terminal returns to prompt and all the files from the directory disappear.

Any ideas on how i can fix this please?

I am running Redhat FC5 and performed "yum update" lastnight and acceted the installation of all 800+ packages which came to over 1GB.

Thanks in advance.

Driver installed

Ok, I have gotten a little further. I had to replace the MODVERDIR with the (new?) "M" in the modules makefile and then they compiled fine.

I am now having a problem compiling the driver, the driver uses the old MODULE_PARM so i replaced these with the new module_param equivelents.

Now i get problems in compile with different errors:

output error: r8187_core.c:2338: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code

Code:

2332:int rtl8180_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd)



2333:{



2334:        struct r8180_priv *priv = (struct r8180_priv *)ieee80211_priv(dev);



2335:        



2336:        down(&priv->wx_sem);



2337:        



2338:        struct iwreq *wrq = (struct iwreq *) rq;



2339:        int ret=-1;



2340:        switch (cmd) {



2341:            case RTL_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT:



2342:                ret = ieee80211_wpa_supplicant_ioctl(priv->ieee80211, &wrq->u.data);



2343:                break;





2344:

2345:            default:



2346:                ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;



2347:                break;



2348:        }





2349:

2350:        up(&priv->wx_sem);



2351:        



2352:        return ret;



2353:}

error output: r8180_wx.c:167: error: implicit declaration of function ‘rtl8187_set_rxconf’

Code:

157:static int r8180_wx_set_mode(struct net_device *dev, struct iw_request_info *a,

158:                             union iwreq_data *wrqu, char *b)

159:{

160:        struct r8180_priv *priv = ieee80211_priv(dev);

161:        int ret;

162:        

163:        down(&priv->wx_sem);

164:        

165:        ret = ieee80211_wx_set_mode(priv->ieee80211,a,wrqu,b);

166:        

167:        rtl8187_set_rxconf(dev);

168:        

169:        up(&priv->wx_sem);

170:        return ret;

171:}

If anyone could help me t o fix these i'd be grateful. Thanks