Biggyfries and finegan,

I was really happy to find this post today. I've been working for a week now trying to bring up my WPC11 Wireless network. I'm running SuSE 8.1. I had tried just about everything, except throwing this Dell CPi though a window, until I saw this post at lunch today (I too am running a V.4 card).

Anyway, this is where I am having my problems now. All the systems and output, you list above, are identical to mine. My output in "cardctl ident" is the same as yours - Realtek "Rtl8139" and manfid 0x0000, 0x24c.

I altered the Makefile to my parameters as indicated in the downloaded "readme" file (also - I'm not a programmer, so I don't know if I needed to include more):

KERNELRELEASE=2.4.19-4GB
INCLUDEPATH= -I /lib/modules/2.4.9-4GB/build/inlcude

I then ran the make command, however i rec'd the following error:

"make:*** [r8180_pci_init.o] Error 1"

I'm not sure what this means, however I tried to run "make install" as indicated above and rec'd "No rule to make target." I'm guessing there isn't a make install script file included.

The readme files says issue the insmod command using the "xxx.o driver" - however I don't seem to have a driver config'd after "make."

I'm stuck here and I don't know if I need to start hacking at the wlan-ng.conf files some more.

Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

h.

Two posts back is a link to a post... that's just too much...

In the file r8180_type.h, edit out the // infront of the line:

typedef struct timer_list timer_t;


Then run the make again, it should build cleanly this time. Also, check the other thread, its got a lot more work going into it right now.

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanks finegan - I'm definately tracking on that post thanks for the lead. As soon as I resolve this problem, I'm over there.

However, your suggestion above didn't do the trick - any other ideas.

Thanks,

h.

Hi All,

This is the best info about the wpc11 ver4 card that I found on the net, tks all!

I have tried to follow the instructions and use the driver available in the Realtek website, but I had no luck so far...

I use a RedHat 7.3, with updated kernel (2.4.20-18.7), and no matter what I do, I cannot correctly load the driver.

If I recompile the driver for my kernel, the compilation goes fine, but if I load the driver, it always core dumps (Segmentation fault). On /var/log/messages, there's a bunch of messages that I don't really understand:


******** RTL8180 Wireless Lan Driver 2003-06-11 loaded********
RTL8180: 02:00.0: region #0 IS a PIO resource!
RTL8180: request_region(0x00004000,0x00000100) !
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000e0109
printing eip:
<< many more messages deleted... >>

After this, I have to reboot, because "lsmod" lists the driver as "initializing", and I cannot remove it no matter what.

Then, I tried to simply use the precompiled driver. To do this, I have to force the loading of the driver (insmod -f), because it is not for my specific kernel. The driver loads fine, and I can set parameters on the card using "iwpriv". But, when I try to connect to the wireless network, it seems to find the network, on /var/log/messages it prints out the wireless network information, including the correct HWD ADDRESS of wireless gateway, and then I get a kernel panic (machine locks and Caps-Lock and Scroll-Lock keybord lights blink forever).

I tried other precompiled drivers, tried to compile the drivers from the source listed to other distributions, to no avail. The driver always "Segmentation faults". This week, Realtek removed the precompiled driver from the RH7.3 zip file...

Well, besides upgrading to a newer RH (what I even want to, but I'm really unable to do right now) or moving to another distribution (even harder...), does any one have any ideas that I can try?

Tks for any help.

Hi everybody...

Sorry for my last post! I had missed Finegan's link to the other thread, and if you did too, go back and chek it out.

I read most of the other thread (lots of info!) and followed the instructions, and now I got my card working. I'm wireless right now!

RedHat 7.3, updated kernel 2.4.20-18.7. I used the Suse driver, did the fix on the code, make, edited wlanup to match my network configuration, and voila! It worked first time.

Now, I'll try the WEP thing, and the other advanced options.

Tks Finegan, tks everybody else!

Hello there!

I've got a wireless problem too. Anyone got Adhoc working with Linux to Linux? This is what i send to realtek.. no response yet.

I recently bought 2 wireless network adapters based on the RTL8180 chipset. I downloaded the latest Linux drivers and after working myself through some compiler issues i got them working very well. Great! When working with an accesspoint everything works fine. But the thing I need is ADHOC mode. So I tried that. When running a Linux Adhoc 'server' and connecting to it with a Windows XP machine everything works fine (defining IP adresses staticly I'm capable of ping). When I try to connect with another Linux machine (after ofcourse stopping the communication with the Windows XP machine) I don't have any luck, I get time-outs (very quickly):

RTL8180: Select a BSS and Join it at channel 6.
RTL8180: Join Request Timeout 1 times. Select another BSS to Join.
RTL8180: Join BSS channel number = 6
RTL8180: Join Request Timeout 2 times. Start an Ibss.

My configuration is this:

server side:
iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para wepmode=off,networktype=adhoc,channel=6
iwpriv wlan0 enable

client side:
iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para wepmode=off,networktype=adhoc
iwpriv wlan0 enable

I used the suse drivers (not the latest redhat drivers, because the give a segmentation fault using debian).
I assumed everything works fine because i am able to connect to an AP.

It works!!!!!!!!!!! Got it working myself... made a stupid mistake in my thinking... it's not required to join an adhoc network, only requirements is that they are using the same channel and SSID, so on both machines i used the same configuration with a different IP address.

The drivers on...
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...model=RTL8180L
... work great for local network connections, but I can't seem to make a PPPoE connection.

I ran into a similar problem with this wireless card on my Windows 2000 machine as well. The LinkSys drivers that came with the product only allowed me to ping my local network. I was able to resolve the issue by downloading beta drivers for WPC11 ver4 off of the LinkSys ftp site.

So PPPoE users beware if you're thinking of getting this card for Linux or Windows -- unless you're using a router.

hi all, i am new to this thread, have been reading it for about a week and following all your guys instructions. i have a major problem, where can i find the RTL8180L_24x.0 ???? I can't find it when I download the distro from Realtek.com.tw? what am I doing wrong?

Under Linux kernel 2.4.x gcc 3.x version, its a zip file, the precompiled module is part of that zip file.

Cheers,

Finegan

hi all,

i recently purchased an "no name" wireless pcmcia card with
relatk 8180 chips on it.
I've managed to compile it with SuSE8.2 with its standard kernel customized wlanXX-Scripts and startet surfing.

Now i found out that its overall performance is lower than german isdn rate from 64 kbit/sec.
Any ideas??

I'm using the lates sources from realtek (1.3), kernel 2.4.20, wireless-tools-25-35.

If found that iwconfig complains that my driver wa compiled with wireless extension version 0 and iwconfig was compiled with version 15 (wireless.h is apropriate).
It seems the that the private_part.o is compiled with an old wireless extension ???!!!???


Jochen

For the benefit of google:
http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/