2. WARNING ABOUT WPC11 VERSION 4
 | The NEW WPC11 CARDS HAVE Realtek 8180 CHIPSET
INSTEAD OF THE RTL8180. Thanks to Juan Natera for
clarification |
| It had come to my attention that the new version,
Version 4 are not compatible with my old instructions. I include a set of
instruction provided by bill atkins |
Until I can clean this up, I include Bill atkins email for
sake of urgency
Quote from Bill Atkins
OK.
First of all, make sure you have a V4 card. Type
as root.
If one of the entries shown is a
or something similar,
then you have a version 4 card.
| If not, then you can probably just follow
the rest of the instructions in the HOWTO. |
Now you need to get drivers for the card. Go to RealTek's download
AND do a search fo 8180 from the downloads section
or you can download the driver that works with Bill's email
at
ftp://152.104.125.40/cn/wlan/rtl8180l/rtl8180_24x_suse82.zip |
and pick up the drivers for SuSE (you don't need to be running SuSE for
the drivers to work - I used them with Gentoo. However, the other divers
don't seem to work at all).
Unpack the incoming tarball. As of this writing, there is a minor bug in
the driver code that must be repaired in order to make the card work.
Open up r8180_type.h.
| On line 128, you'll see a line with two slashes
before the text. Remove these slashes. Now you're ready to build. |
At the shell prompt, type make. The drivers will build themselves. If
there are any problems making the drivers, open up the Makefile and check
the kernel version settings on the first few lines.
Now open up the wlanup file.
Uncomment line 5 (remove the #) and change
the SSID to the SSID of your network.
Uncomment line 8 and set the
ssid2scan to your network's SSID. Uncomment line 9 and set the networktype
to infra (unless you really are using adhoc). Save your changes.
Now eject the card
and plug it in again.
From the
directory where you unpacked the drivers, type
You will get a warning - ignore it.
Now run the wlanup script found in the driver package. Your card should
now appear when you type ifconfig. You should configure your IP address
at this point. If you use DHCP, just type "dhcpd wlan0". Try pinging
google.com. You should get replies back. If so, your card is working!
Now copy rtl8180_24x.o to /lib/modules/YOURKERNELNAME, where
YORUKERNELNAME is the name of the directory in /lib/modules.
Then copy
the wlanup and wlandown scripts to /sbin.
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