I am trying to install wireless PCI cards that use the realtek 8180 chipset on Dell machines with RH9. I have been through the entire thread and tried a bunch of different wlanup configurations. They all seem to get both lights blinking on the card but leave me with no connection.

The wlanup file currently reads:

#Load Module
/sbin/insmod -f rtl8180_24x.o

#Set SSID
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para ssid=mylan
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para ssid2scan=mylan
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para networktype=infra
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para wepmode=off
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para channel=1

#Configure wlan0 IP address
/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.102 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add default gw 192.168.1.1
echo "$(/sbin/ifconfig wlan0)"

#Enable wireless lan driver
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 enable

/sbin/dhclient wlan0


When I run this everything goes great until the dhclient kicks in. When that happens I am getting the following....

/sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for wlan0 not found
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:50:fc:d1:1e:e5
Seding on LPF/wlan0/00:50:fc:d1:1e:e5
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1

and the the loop repeats itself with the same message except the interval changes....I kill it with control+C.

When I ping 192.168.1.1 it seems to work but I can't open get a web browser to work or anything else.....

Can anyone point me in the right direction or tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,
Danno

I have been contacted by a person that seems to imply that the specifications I received are not meant to be distributed widely. This seems quite odd to me, but I do not want to take the slightest chance to jeopardize RealTek's support for Linux and other opens source OS, so I would like to ask you to destroy any copy of the documentation you might have downloaded up to now.

I have written to RealTek to ask for confirmation of their intention to distribute
the specifications to the community, and in case they do confirm, I'll make
the document available again...

So there was a steven999 who was having trouble installing the rtl8180_24x.o driver
on a mandrake9.1 laptop.... I'm seeing the same problem and I didn't quite get
the final answer. Steven999 said that when he enabled the driver w/ the "wlanup"
script it just crashed (hung) the computer. ... I see the same thing (that is the whole screen locks up, cant even do the ctl-alt-del sequence). but I didnt' see
where that problem was solved... or was it? why does it hang, how can I stop it..

I basically see all of the same things as he did, I set the driver settings w/ the
iwpriv command as follows:

/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para authtype=opensystem
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para networktype=infra
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para ssid2scan=wireless
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para wepmode=off
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para channel=1
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para addmac="0:9:5b:64:de:48"
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para ssid=wireless

ofcourse none of that has any effect... A couple of other things that I noticed:

0) the actual command that causes the hang is "iwpriv wlan0 enable" that is
when something bad happens.
1) if my wireless router is not turned on, then it won't hang....
2) upon bootup when the card manager starts up I see the follwing message
error parsing CIS slot 1: invalid argument
or something to that effect.

it smells like it is going off into the weeds when an interrupt for this device
occurs....

I have Mandrake9.1 installed on a del latitude w/ a pentiumIII 500MHz. My
card is actually a Netgear MA521, though I understand that it has the same
chipset inside so its basically the same thing.....

well, any help would be (ofcourse) helpful ;]

thanks
Mike

Oh, I was lazy and didn't read far enough in the thread.... well it seems as though
this driver doesn't work w/ mandrake & the 2.4.21.0-13mdk kernel.... hmmm.

RDICOSMO or Steven999 who was your contact at realtek, I'd like to offer to
do the development for their driver.... I think I can tackle it if I just had the spec.

otherwise I'll just go and switch to RedHat... :[

I have made progress... I had some problems with things being in the right directories that I got worked out with a clean boot and then rebuilding the driver....

I think I have a new problem now that came up earlier in this thread. I can ping the wireless router. I can ping other wireless computers in the room. I can even access the routers IP through modzilla and a website like google by entering the IP address http://xxx.xxx.x.x

I haven't been able to ping an outside machine nor can I type www.yahoo.com and get anything to come up. Insteade I get a message that says "www.yahoo.com could not be found. Please check the name and try again."

I believe I need to do something in the /etc/resolve.conf file with nameserver but I am brand new at Linux and I can't figure out what I am supposed to do and how to actually do it. Finegan talked about it and laid out a general format but I don't even know how to get it open or create it.

If someone could go blow by blow and explain what I need to do I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,
Danno

I guess I should also mention I am using a Linksys AP and when I look at the settings I see:


Internet:
(MAC Address: 00-06-25-F4-D1-A6)

IP Address: 68.69.245.58
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 68.69.245.1
DNS: 24.48.217.227
24.48.217.226
0.0.0.0
DHCP Remaining Time: 9:41:11

Got it....I actully used the 'neat' command or systems>Network utility. Clicked on DNS I added the primary and secondary nameserver addresses. You then have to save your changes and it creates the proper /etc/resolv.conf file.

Question....I have tried 2 different instilations of RH9. One is an everything boot which takes up a ton of space and one is a personal desktop boot. The everything boot works fine. When you try to run the 'make' command on the personal desktop version it generates and error with 'gcc:' Does anyone know what is happening? Do you know what packages need to be installed to make this work? I would prefer not to use 5 GB of disk space with an everything install.

Finally, the PCI cards I got were from a company called NetGear. Their tech support was very helpful through email to help me get things up.

Danno

try with the 2.4.20 kernel, and the SuSE driver from http://users.resentment.org/neoh/rtl8180_24x_SuSE.zip and see if it makes a difference..

just a thought.

Hello all,

Ok I am a unix/linux user for two years now. But new to the wireless PCMCIA card forum. I've looked high and low for answers to get my Linksys WPC11 ver-4 running with Suse 8.2 personal. Here are my specs:

Compaq Armada m700 laptop PIII 500 MHZ 574MB RAM and 20GIG hard drive.

Linksys WPC11 ver.4 Wireless Card

Belkin 54g Wireless AP router

Two Desktops running WinXP on same router w/o any problems.

I'm trying to get the laptop to connect to just the router , like the other computers. Suse recongizes the card and asks if I want to configure my Linksys Wireless adapter through YAST. I say yes and go into network devices---> configure set it to DHCP, and wireless settings. I save the changes and as it is saving.. the card goes off! then I restart and it still stays off? Can someone walk a experienced linux user (that is so experienced.. he can't get the card to work LOL) to get this to work? I'm learning on the fly and I know there has to be a fixable solution to this?

Helpless Linux Guy

Have you tried reading the forum?

yes i did but i tried each thing posted here and unless im doing something wrong.. nothing is working correctly? i'm just wondering if maybe i missed something? I tried the suse.zip file and the linksys realtek file on realtek.com. I also tried other forums and nothing anybody has said worked for me? I thought maybe I missed something.

Earlier on the thred there are some commads for determining what chipset you have on the card. I would run those as a starting point and post the output. It seems funny that your OS is recognizing the card. Most, if not all, of the posts on this thread refer to the realtek 8180 chipset I think. As best I can tell, no one has been able to get the card working through the OS recognizing the card and prompting the user to configure it.

Make sure you are running kernel 2.4.20
Download the SuSE from that resentment site I posted above.

Make sure you have wlan0 in ifconfig -- set everything yourself, dont worry about dhcp.

then do all the iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para ssid2scan=linksys shit that's posted above as well.

Thanks I will give it a try.

Hopefully I can figure this thing out.

Hi,

I have a D-Link DWL-610, it uses the same Realtek 8180L chip
i've managed to run it in RedHat 9, just remember to change
the pci_device_id in the file "r8180_pci_init.c" before compile the
module,

My card was detected as vendor: 0x1186, device: 0x3300
so just ajust the line in the c file to this values

- - - -
static struct pci_device_id rtl8180_pci_id_tbl[] {
{ 0x1186 , 0x3300 , /* 0x10EC, 0x8180 0x8139 */, PCI_ANY_ID ....
.....

Something like above 8)

Hope this will help to the new owners of a DWL-610 (really cheap card 8)