how I got my rtl8180 wireless working on slack10 (with wep)
Well I had some issues making my rtl8180 card working on slackware 10.
So I thought a little help for those who wont spend ages like I did. I couldn't get it to use the dhcpcd og the standard route command, so heres what I did. I had some some trouble getting the latest ndiswrapper working, but 0.8 worked. I unpacked it and installed with the latest realtek drivers. Code:
su root Code:
dmesg |grep wlan0 Code:
iwlist wlan0 scan Code:
iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed the manually assigment and adding of my access point as gateway would also fail. So in the end I tried with the pump command provided by knoppix. For some strange reason this one works. Code:
pump -i wlan0 Then I tried pinging the outside world Code:
ping google.com Making sure that it is beeing loaded at boottime I did like this. in the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, I just added modprobe ndiswrapper, afteer looking at the /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless file, I quickly determent that I should delete every thing and input these commands instead. Code:
iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed Code:
chmod a+x rc.wireless |
It took me a while to get this card running. I did get it to work without ndiswrapper using the kernel from Slack 9.0, I think it was. I think this is the same method that is in the very lengthy thread on the wireless networking forum.
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