DWL-520, Rev D (Realtek 8180) and Redhat 9.0 setup problems
 

I am having trouble setting up my DWL-520 wireless PCI Network card. The following is the pertinent info. Any help would be appreciated.

My wireless card, which works with XP, DSL router, and module software are as follows:
DWL-520, rev D w/Realtek 8180 chipset.
Actiontec wireless DSL router
ssid = ACTIONTEC
Channel = 1
WEP 104 is on, security code is hexcode 112233445566778899aabbccdd
ip for Actiontec gateway is 192.168.0.1
DHCP is on
Software module software is from rtl8180_linuxdrv_v14_rh90.zip downloaded from Realtek website

My system is
Boot into Redhat 9.0, kernel release 2.4.20_8, gcc version 3.2.2 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)

What I have done, after an immediate reboot -
“Lsmod |grep rtl” – nothing, as expected
compiled rtl8180_24X.o per readme instructions from above zip file
“insmod -f rtl8180_24x.o” – loads with warnings
“lsmod |grep rtl” - module is loaded
“ping 192.168.0.1” – host unreachable
“lspci” - console says 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8180 (rev 20)
However, when I
“less pci” - gets a different rev.
console says
Bus 0, device 12, function 0
Ethernet controller: PCI device 10ec:8180 (Realtek Semiconduetor Co., Ltd.) (rev 32)
IRQ 10.
Master capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
I/O at 0xe400 [oxe4ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd9002000 [0xd90020ff].

From Realtek readme file I do the following commands from a shell and I get no error messages
iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para channel=1
iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para basicrates=0xf (all bits set)
iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para oprates=0xf (ditto)
iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para authtype=opensystem
iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para ssid2scan=ACTIONTEC
iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para networktype=infra
iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para wepmode=wep104
iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para wepkeyid=0
iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para wepkey104_1=112233445566778899aabbccdd
iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para ssid=ACTIONTEC

When I “ping 192.168.0.1” - network is unreachable
when I do “iwconfig” - console says
I get a warning: Driver for device wlan0 had been compiled with version 0 of Wireless Extensions, while this program is using version 15. Some things may be broken...

wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:off/any Nickname:””
NWID:off/any Frequency:infGHz Access Point: FF:BF:21:00:00:00
Bit Rate=1.07...../s Tx-Power= 107.....dBm Sensitivity=116..../0
Retry:on RTS thr=-1.... B Fragment thr=-1.... B
Encryption key: 0000-0000-...-0000
Power Management0000-0000-...0000:on

What I thought I would get when I do “iwconfig” would be the results as input by “iwpriv”!!!

Any thoughts.

Thanks in advance