Wireless Nightmare
I'm at it again: WIRELESS!!! I've NEVER gotten it to work correctly in Linux. The last time I tried, I got awful close. I was on SUSE 10.1 beta 6, with a RTL8185L card with a RTL8225 radio.
Anyway, I used Ndsiwrapper, and got to the point where the lights were blinking, there was a "wlan0", and Kwifimanager could identify the card. I could even do an 'iwlist scanning wlan0' and find and connect to the ssid. dhclient wouldn't work, and I couldn't assign a static IP. I was stuck, with a half working adapter.
I installed Agama (SUSE 10.1) final, and I just got around to trying it out again. First, though, because my computer is caseless, I had to prop it up with something. Maybe a book... Ah, here's one: Getting results with Microsoft Office 97 :) . Anyway, I booted it up, and I tried the Realtek driver ( from the website). It builds and everything, but I get an 'insmod: rt8180.ko: Unknown character in module' or something to that extent. I tryed Ndiswrapper (1.10?), with no luck. I went through the steps (build it, ndiswrapper -i net8185.inf, ndiswrapper -l) but there was no "ndiswrapper" module. I couldn't modprobe it (no error message), and insmod gives a 'file already exists'. I'm stuck, again.
Annoyed at the _one_ thing that Linux doesn't do,
poly-p man
Anyway, I used Ndsiwrapper, and got to the point where the lights were blinking, there was a "wlan0", and Kwifimanager could identify the card. I could even do an 'iwlist scanning wlan0' and find and connect to the ssid. dhclient wouldn't work, and I couldn't assign a static IP. I was stuck, with a half working adapter.
I installed Agama (SUSE 10.1) final, and I just got around to trying it out again. First, though, because my computer is caseless, I had to prop it up with something. Maybe a book... Ah, here's one: Getting results with Microsoft Office 97 :) . Anyway, I booted it up, and I tried the Realtek driver ( from the website). It builds and everything, but I get an 'insmod: rt8180.ko: Unknown character in module' or something to that extent. I tryed Ndiswrapper (1.10?), with no luck. I went through the steps (build it, ndiswrapper -i net8185.inf, ndiswrapper -l) but there was no "ndiswrapper" module. I couldn't modprobe it (no error message), and insmod gives a 'file already exists'. I'm stuck, again.
Annoyed at the _one_ thing that Linux doesn't do,
poly-p man
posted by Poly-p man at 12:56 PM
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