if you can, plz give me the output of "ifconfig" after doin all the stuff on my website
somewhat i am sure it's not the command problem, don't ask me why because i am just certain that it's not the problem
there should be something like wlan0 blah blah.

its really strange and i have no idea why, but whe i open a "shell","xterm" or "terminal comand line", what ever u want to called, and put "ifconfig", has a root, always hapend the same:
it doesn't hapend anything! u can wait as long as you want, you can hit enter or any other thing, and nothing hapend!, and it doesnt give u the "druida root #" again!!!!
why do u think this hapend??, is it a bug or what?, i made something rong??

Newbie to Linux... found the step-by-step ndiswrapper and RTL8180 post very helpful.

However, my Linksys WPC11 (v4) card still isn't working - wlan0 seems to be OK but when I try to use iwconfig to set ESSID etc, none of it is set properly.

Looking in dmesg there are about 30 errors identical:

__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gtp=0x21/0)
ndiswrapper (NdisMAllocateSharedMemory:1043): Failed to allocate DMA coherent memory. Windows driver requested 2400 bytes of un-cached memory.

Am I just plain out of RAM? (Only have 64MB)
Or is there something else going on?

I have a big problem with my rtl8180 card...

I have no ideea how to set it up to work at 1Mb rate and not 11 Mbs...

in help it says:


Set basic rates basicrates {bit0 = 1Mbps, bit1 = 2Mbps, bit2 = 5.5Mbps, bit3 = 11 Mbps}
Set operational rates oprates {bit0 = 1Mbps, bit1 = 2Mbps, bit2 = 5.5Mbps, bit3 = 11 Mbps}



i have no ideea what value to give fro a rate of 1Mbps...

any ideeas ?

iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para oprates=?????

lol, u are still using the old driver from realtek
anyway, u don't need to tell the card to operate at varies speed.
it will decide it for itself by testin with ur ap, access point
by sayin saving a problem doesn't help at all
if u want to do the hard way, go to the site in my sign might be help
also, i u want to go with the easier way, there is a step-by-step instruction for u too!
so i hope u can get it workin right away

you didint understand....i dont want the card to negociate with the ap ...i only want 1Mbps, not 2, 5 or 11

A i have my own reasons to operate at 1Mbps and not more...still have no ideea how to do that....

suspicious....
the line u need to use is
iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para oprates=bit0

Thx for this really nice thread.

Got my WPC11 working within 10 Minutes.

Kernel: 2.6.10
Ndiswrapper: 1.1
XP-Driver: 1.37

Now i have a little problem.
i want to use WPA encryption inside my wireless network.

so i downloaded wpa supplicant v0.38.
the authentication works, but when wpa-supp tries to insert the key into the ndiswrapper driver i got an error.

"Failed to set PTK to the driver"

But ndiswrapper supports wpa-supp.

does someone have an idea?

jhp
black_

Hello;

I'm sort of in the same boat. I'm trying out different types of linux; Fedora and Mandrake 10.1; I have a wpc11 v.4 card also...I tried to find Linux compatable cards; but even ebay doesn't have any! I'm trying a file called Linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre26. I've very new; working around command line is getting easier but still confusing; I would like to get a new card or find a configuration for the Linksys wpc11 v.4 card...any suggestions are welcome. I dumped Windows after they started their new mandate of validating again. Thank you for any help that can be provided.


New Linux convert;

-Boris

haha another one with the same chipset as my wifi card!!!!
welcome to the linux world
btw, ur card is compatible with linux
i would say getting that card workin in linux is the most fun thing i ever done
i used ndiswrapper which is like a emulator for window's driver
and it uses window's driver to operate ur card
if u want to a step by step tutorial
i've written one at 404.bizhat.com
if u are still havin problem
then just email me or something

also just to correct u, ebay have tons of cards that's compatible with linux
but they just don't claim so. u have to search for the answer like always for linux ...

Hello;


Ok, anyone worked with Mandrake 10.1 Official yet? I can't find a place to download updates; I signed up for that mandrake club and spent $21 for it, haven't gotten any updates yet.....need help please!




New Linux Convert;
-Boris

After a long journey to get this card to work, I seem to have hit a wall. I am running slackware 10.2 kernel version 2.6.15.2 with ndiswrapper 1.8 and I just can't seem to configure the wireless device. I have to set parameter 'hangcheck_interval=-1' to prevent the device from resetting, but still iwconfig ignores any attempt to configure wlan0! I've tried modifying '10EC:8180.5.conf' to the settings I desire, but they still do not hold. Always 'ESSIDff/any', Access Point: 00: .. :00

My wireless router has no encryption, just mac security. There are no error messages. Not even a warning in dmesg.

Any help?

This may not be the answer you want, but must you use Slacware ?
Both Kanotix and Kubuntu recognize this card out of the box
without having to use Ndiswrapper or anything esoteric.
That's what I have used on my Toshiba laptop.
Joe Nayares

On a stranger note, if I set the card to ad-hoc mode, the device is detected by other network devices in the vicinity as it should be, but the card is still blind!

stale post but i thought i would post these and see if i can help this project get some help.

http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/