I finally have installed the driver for my Realtek 8180 chipset WiFi card. The onlt problem is that the nic is set, but does not obtail an IP from the AP. Reading other threads, I was directed to modufy the /etc/rc.d/rc/wireless.conf file. I do not have one.

My guess is that when I use the graphic tool to set up the network connection, my driver is not listed and as such I have no idea which one to pick. Not picking one does not create wireless.conf.

How do I accomplish this?

Please save me from Windows!

I have created a new connection using the nic (eth0). During reboot, I select verbose and the "bringing up eth0" fails. Otherwise the system works flawlessly. I attempted iwconfig eth0 and :

IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID: "DeathStar" Nickmane: "inknown"
Mode: Managed Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx Power=20dBm
TRS thr:0ff Fragment thrff
Encryption key: off
Power Management: off
Link Quality: 0 Signal Level:0 Noise LEvel: 0
Rx invalid nwid: 0 Rx invalid crypt: 0 Rx invalid frag: 0
Tx excessive reties: 0 Invalid misc: 0 Missed beacon: 0

As you can see, the card sees the AP, but cannot access it. The TX/Rx light blinks, and the Link light is on. I am not using WAP/WEP or MAC filtering.

Help a here.... I have looked up and down and no luck finding a solution.

Hi,

rc.wireless.conf is a (recent) Slackware thing and is consumed by Slackware's rc.wireless script, don't bother looking for it in Mandrake or Ubuntu.

it looks like you're doing this in Mandrake, since the tool is insisting on a module. If so, what you want to do is work around the config tool by creating the file (as root) /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and placing the line: "DEVICE=eth0" (no quotes) in it. As root, in a Konsole, this command will do it:

echo 'DEVICE=eth0' > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

then retry the config tool, menu -> mandrake control center -> manage connections

It looks like you've already setup the wrapper to load at boot so you should be good to go.

The line "Device=..." was there already. The problem is not connecting to the AP. I try using the config tool, and nothing.

Darn... going back to Windows??? I need ot online on this computer.

Well, if the tool fails, then you can try to connect using the command line (konsole) as root, here is the idea:

iwconfig eth0 essid_name channel 6 ...other params go here

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.101 ...use a compatible address

you probably should boot back to windows and note what the settings of your card are there, like default gateway, ip address, name servers, etc and then try using the command line to connect in mandrake, if that works you can edit the config files by hand.