WPC11 Version 4!

if someone wants to post it someplace i'll email it them..

Ok.. for the fedora 2.4.22 driver i received from realtek, it will only be up a couple days.. here is the addy..

http://209.101.196.68

thanx dougmva!

Looks like it is up on the website now at realtek
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&Software=True

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&Software=True
sorry about double post. my above did not show up when i went back in even after a refresh...

yours in dorkiness

Hi dougmva,

thanks for the driver, unfortunately it doesn't work for me under Slack 9.1 with the 2.4.22
kernel. It shows the same symptoms as the standard v1.5 driver


Wolfgang

I can't find the new driver in the realtek site. (for Fedora)
Was it removed?

I can't connect to the website http://209.101.196.68

kou

Wolfgang67, Are you able to get the wireless working at all on Slack 9.1? I've got it to run on 2.4.21, but it'll lockup the system when I take it down.

And when I went to the website, it had a 1.5 version, but the kernel still says 2.4.20 and 2.4.18 using gcc 2.96 and gcc 3.2 respectively. I don't see anything about drivers for 2.4.22?

Are there any kernel patches that Fedora is using that Slackware isn't which would prohibit the driver from not working on a stock 2.4.22 kernel? I think Slackware uses a minimum of patches...if any.

@RoyBatty

I remember having the same problem in the beginning, the machine locked hard and I had to press reset. It has something to do with a wrong wlandown-script. You need to add the "/usr" to the line containing "iwpriv" because this command is located in /usr/sbin/.
I will post both my wlanup and wlandown when Im at my laptop again.
As for the 2.4.22 and up kernel, don't even try it's wasted time (at least currently). It's got nothing to do with patching (Slack always uses vanilla kernels) but more with a slightly different structure
in the kernels beginning from 2.4.22

Wolfgang

Originally posted by kou I can't find the new driver in the realtek site. (for Fedora) Was it removed? I can't connect to the website http://209.101.196.68 kou

Yup the site is gone, you will have better luck here:

http://ftp.escom.bg/Linux/wireless/pcicard/

I've used the suse source from here and the directions from here on a 2.4.21-xfs kernel with good results so far.

Originally posted by ferreter Yup the site is gone, you will have better luck here: http://ftp.escom.bg/Linux/wireless/pcicard/ I've used the suse source from here and the directions from here on a 2.4.21-xfs kernel with good results so far.

Thank you, but these drivers are for distributions for 2.4.18 and 2.4.20 kernel.
I need 8180 driver for 2.4.22 kernel.

kou

Originally posted by kou Thank you, but these drivers are for distributions for 2.4.18 and 2.4.20 kernel. I need 8180 driver for 2.4.22 kernel. kou

Good luck because they don't exist.

Has anyone else got a segfault when using the new Fedora drivers?

[hirvox@nightwatch rtl8180_1.5]$ make
gcc -O6 -Wall -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DLINUX -I /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/ -DRTL_IO_MAP -DRTL_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DRTL_ACT_AS_STA -DRTL8180_DRV_ON_PC -DENABLE_DBG_PRINT -c -o r8180_pci_init.o r8180_pci_init.c
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/asm/semaphore.h:39,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/linux/fs.h:202,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/linux/capability.h:17,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/linux/binfmts.h:4,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/linux/sched.h:10,
                 from r8180_pci_init.c:26:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/asm/system.h: In function `__set_64bit_var':
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/asm/system.h:189: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/asm/system.h:189: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
In file included from r8180_pci_init.c:40:
r8180_type.h:62:1: warning: "ENABLE_DBG_PRINT" redefined
<command line>:11:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
gcc -O6 -Wall -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DLINUX -I /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/ -DRTL_IO_MAP -DRTL_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DRTL_ACT_AS_STA -DRTL8180_DRV_ON_PC -DENABLE_DBG_PRINT -c -o r8180_if.o r8180_if.c
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/asm/semaphore.h:39,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/linux/fs.h:202,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/linux/capability.h:17,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/linux/binfmts.h:4,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/linux/sched.h:10,
                 from r8180_if.c:27:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/asm/system.h: In function `__set_64bit_var':
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/asm/system.h:189: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/include/asm/system.h:189: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
In file included from r8180_if.h:20,
                 from r8180_if.c:43:
r8180_type.h:62:1: warning: "ENABLE_DBG_PRINT" redefined
<command line>:11:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
--- Generate open part open_part.o ---

--- Generate rtl8180 linux driver  rtl8180_24x.o on 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl ---

So far, so good, but when I try to activate it:

[root@nightwatch rtl8180_1.5]# ./wlanup ap
Warning: loading rtl8180_24x.o will taint the kernel: forced load
  See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
Module rtl8180_24x loaded, with warnings
ap
./wlanup: line 72:  1936 Segmentation fault      /sbin/iwpriv wlan0 enable

Also, I get this on my local CRT:

******** RTL8180 Wireless Lan Driver 2003-11-24 loaded********
RTL8180: 02:03.0: region #0 IS a PIO resource!
RTL8180: request_region(0x0000c400,0x00000100) !
RTL8180 WLAN driver version 1.5
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address bd400080
 printing eip:
d4a918f0
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
rtl8180_24x parport_pc lp parport autofs cls_fw cls_u32 sch_ingress sch_sfq sch_htb 8139too via-rhine mii ipt_REJECT ipt_limit ipt_LOG ipt_state iptable_filte
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<d4a918f0>]    Tainted: GF
EFLAGS: 00010286

EIP is at RF_WriteReg [rtl8180_24x] 0x58 (2.4.22-1.2149.nptl)
eax: 9001f000   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 00000000   edx: 00000001
esi: d4ab77a0   edi: c1860000   ebp: c567dd18   esp: c567dd10
ds: 0068   es: 0068   ss: 0068
Process iwpriv (pid: 1936, stackpage=c567d000)
Stack: c7563d80 c7563c00 c567dd48 d4a929be 0000001f 00000000 00000246 c567dd4c
       00000000 0000c400 0b000000 c7563d80 c1860000 0000c400 c567dd78 d4a91f36
       c7563c00 0000000b c7563d80 d4a808b3 0021fdf4 00000246 d3f756f0 3014f40e
Call Trace:   [<d4a929be>] GCT_Config [rtl8180_24x] 0x46 (0xc567dd1c)
[<d4a91f36>] PhyConfig [rtl8180_24x] 0x1a2 (0xc567dd4c)
[<d4a808b3>] rtl8180_hw_reset [rtl8180_24x] 0x23 (0xc567dd5c)
[<d4a7f790>] rtl8180_start_hw_config [rtl8180_24x] 0x104 (0xc567dd7c)
[<d4a7da7e>] __rtl8180_enable [rtl8180_24x] 0x10e (0xc567ddbc)
[<d4a9695a>] __rtl8180_ioctl [rtl8180_24x] 0x8a (0xc567ddec)
[<c0135115>] filemap_nopage [kernel] 0x1b5 (0xc567de70)
[<c0130b69>] do_no_page [kernel] 0x89 (0xc567dea0)
[<c0130d77>] handle_mm_fault [kernel] 0x77 (0xc567dee0)
[<c0131da0>] expand_stack [kernel] 0xc0 (0xc567def8)
[<c020f0f0>] dev_ifsioc [kernel] 0x3c0 (0xc567df1c)
[<c020f38f>] dev_ioctl [kernel] 0x22f (0xc567df3c)
[<c0206796>] sock_ioctl [kernel] 0x26 (0xc567df84)
[<c0153359>] sys_ioctl [kernel] 0xc9 (0xc567df94)
[<c0109747>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xc567dfc0)


Code: a3 80 00 40 bd 5b 5e c9 c3 8d 76 00 55 89 e5 57 56 53 83 ec

So, any ideas? Realtek isn't answering my emails anymore.
I did get the card working with Linuxant's Driverloader and the WinXP drivers available from Realtek's site, but that's only a temporary solution.

Use an older kernel up to 2.4.21

Wolfgang

I'm a little confused about all this. That is not the normal 2.4.22(+) problem. Does there really exist a Fedora driver for 2.4.22?

If so, where can this be obtained. There was a link in a previous post, but it didn't work for me. I have tried emailing the author, but get no response. Maybe I will be more lucky with Realtek support...

Please speak out if you have this driver, I would be happy to host it somewhere for us all to share

JS