how I got my rtl8180 wireless working on slack10 (with wep)

monkeyking · 01-05-2005, 12:44 AM

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
make install
cd ndiswrapper-0.8
ndiswrapper -i net8180.inf
modprobe ndiswrapper

This should install it and I checked, if my kernel would agree.

Code:

dmesg |grep wlan0

Next I used iwlist to see if my access point was found.

Code:

iwlist wlan0 scan

Then I put in the info for my network.

Code:

iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
iwconfig wlan0 key restricted MY_HEX_KEY
iwconfig wlan0 essid myNet
ifconfig wlan0 up

The dhcpcd command would stuck for ages, and reply with operation failed.
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

I put my pump file in /sbin
Then I tried pinging the outside world

Code:

ping google.com

Thats is.

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
iwconfig wlan0 key restricted MY_HEX_KEY
iwconfig wlan0 essid myNet
ifconfig wlan0 up
pump -i wlan0

afterwards I made the file executable and hidden.

Code:

chmod a+x rc.wireless
chmod a-r rc.wireless

This worked for me, but I'm still puzzeled why dhcpcd didn't work

ringwraith · 01-05-2005, 05:38 PM

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.