OK, so I've got the module loading, and wlan0 gets configured, but no dice from there.

I'm new to wireless so bear with me if you will.


I've a linksys 802.11b router with an ssid of linksys (figured I'd leave as much default as possible to start with). I've WEP disabled.

when I run iwlist wlan0 channel (for example) I get:
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled w/version 0 of Wireless Extension, while this program isusing version 15. SOme things may be broken ...

then it lists the Current Channel as "-0" and no channels.

So I run iwconfig (same warning).

It shows wlan 0 as there.

At this point, I have the router running DHCP, so I can verify I have the PC card working. I'll worry about network configuration later.

So, the router is set with
channel 1
WEP disabled
SSID linksys

How do I go about getting a DHCP address now?

This is a weird one, the guy who wrote it used the kernel wireless API, but only interaction with one single program, iwpriv

Iwconfig and the rest of them are going to return a lot of incorrect goo. Check the README, us the "wlanup" script as an example of what commands to issue, for instance:

iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para ssid2scan=linksys
iwpriv wlan0 enable
dhcpcd wlan0
or, for RedHat:
dhclient wlan0

That should snag one if indeed this driver works properly, only had an hour or so to mess with the card myself when I saw one about a month ago.

Cheers,

Finegan

No go. It doesn't seem to be working, it never receives an IP address.

The router (Linksys BEFW11S4) doesn't show any WLAN activity during this time. I suspect the channel is the issue. Doing more digging ...


ok, looked at dmesg prior to sending. I'm getting "... not in BSS or IBSS, CAN NOT transmit a data frame!"

Try adding in the line:

iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para networktype=infra

That'll put the card in infrastructure mode, known under "iwconfig" as managed, its what you'll need to be in to talk to a stock configured Linksys AP.

Also, to get the full help:

iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para help

And then look at "dmesg", no kidding, it dumps the help file into the ring buffer, isn't that just friggin' weird?!?

Also, I think the current settings can be displayed with:

iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para

or

iwpriv wlan0

Again, like I was saying, this card uses entirely private ioctl settings and I only got to play with one for a little while, so its a bit strange.

Cheers,

Finegan

Just great.

dmesg says "No device found"

yes, dumping help there *is* strange.

I'm considering getting a new card at this point.
grrrrr

hmmm I'm getting a MAC address from the card, so it must be finding it ... and the address matches the one on the back of the card

Just wanted to let you know that i have not played with this in a while. I still have the card, so i will try to keep playing with it.

thanks for all the help.

Please do man, if you look at one of the other threads here on the WPC11, that got 10000 unique hits, and you're one of the first people that's going to be dealing with a card that is very very very common, shortly.

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanks to Finegan for the kind help with this.
I too was able to retrieve the MAC address of the card, but had little luck since.

I'm eager to get my wireless network going... What can I do to help ? I guess at this point I'd be happy to witness some form of interraction with the router :-)

I'm trying to hack the content of /etc/sysconfig/network-script but must admit I'm not quite sure what I'm doing ! I'll post if I get anywhere, but I could do with some hand-holding

Many thanks again, getting the MAC address is a *huge* step forward !

Eric

Might want to check out this thread, steven999 just got a newer copy of the driver from the author so this may be making a little more progress, best to convene all of the WPC11 version 4 traffic in the same place for the time being too:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5&pagenumber=2

Cheers,

Finegan

Yeah I've seen this thread... I wasn't sure if it was applicable, as I was suspecting a configuration issue on the upper layers... But after two days of whell-spining, I start to wonder whether the driver could also have its share of responsability...

Still digging but I'm hitting a rock...

In that thread Steve picked up a newer copy of the driver precompiled for a version of SuSe. I have no idea what version, but you may want to try that one out and see if you can at least get the thing to jump:

http://www.clockwatching.net/~fin/ra...0_24x_SuSE.zip

Cheers,

Finegan

This version doesn't compile on RH 9.0... I'm throwing the towel, and keep on scouting the uuuuuu until a clever soul finds a solution.. Until then, it's back to good ol' 10BaseT

Good thing it's pouring in Boston, at least I can't use the laptop in the garden

I have the same problem to compile the rtl8180 suse verzion under redhat, i get this:

gcc -O6 -Wall -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DLINUX -I /usr/src/linux/include/ -DRTL_IO_MAP -DRTL_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DRTL_ACT_AS_STA -c -o r8180_pci_init.o r8180_pci_init.c
In file included from r8180_pci_init.c:40:
r8180_if.h:87: parse error before '*' token
r8180_if.h:88: parse error before '*' token
r8180_if.h:89: parse error before '*' token
make: *** [r8180_pci_init.o] Error 1

If i compile the rh8 driver it works, just i get this on a ping to the router:

RTL8180: Be in station mode in start_xmit!
RTL8180: Be in station mode in start_xmit!
RTL8180: Be in station mode in start_xmit!

Please help, i need to run this card.
I use RH9 and the drivers from the realtek webpage:
- rtl8180_24x_suse82.zip
- rtl8180_rh80(05).zip

and nothing works. My wlanup looks like this:
#Load module
/sbin/insmod rtl8180_24x.o

#Set SSID
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para ssid2scan=linksys
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para ssid=linksys

#Enable wireless lan driver
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para networktype=infra
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para wepmode=off
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para channel=6
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 enable

#Configure wlan0 IP address
/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 172.16.100.104
echo "$(/sbin/ifconfig wlan0)"
route add default gw 172.16.100.1

I don't now what to do, how you guys have compiled it under redhat9 the suse driver?

Thank You

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...904#post324904

That'll at least get the bugger to compile, join in on that thread for more work with the card.

Cheers,

Finegan