[PLUG] RTL8180L Card...

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 10:12:10 UTC 2009


On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Michael Robinson
<plug_1 at robinson-west.com>wrote:

> Doing a cat /proc/pci my Zonet PCI wireless card comes up as a
> RealTek 8180L card.  Note the L, I think it means that this card
> is quite different from some other 8180 series cards.  I have a
> free driver from sourceforge that works on 2.6 kernels, but I'm
> noticing that it isn't perfect.  Randomly, the card just stops
> working.  If you are ssh'ed in over this card, you'll be going
> along fine and without warning everything stops.  I'm wondering
> if I should upgrade from 2.6.10 to a much later kernel because
> of the possibility that the driver won't compile at all for a
> newer kernel?
>
> I tried to use a 2.6 kernel specific driver from RealTek, but that
> driver is specific to the 2.6.9 Fedora Core 3 kernel and does
> not work with 2.6.10.  Worse, I am not impressed with how this
> driver was implemented as it doesn't plug in nicely with the way
> things are standardly done in Slackware.
>
> Most of the time when the card is working, I notice a 96/100 for
> link quality.  When it is working, it works well.  That's the
> trouble, it doesn't always work.
>
> I am somewhat suspicious of my Linksys WAP11 AP, version 2.6 on
> the bottom.  Power cycling it sometimes brings the link back up,
> which seems odd.
>
> I have rtl8180-0.21.tar.gz source code from sourceforge.  Is this
> the latest version of this driver?  Is anyone maintaining this
> driver to try and get it working with more of the 8180 cards
> out there?  I have 3 open standard 16 bit pcmcia slots. I could
> get a pcmcia wireless card to replace this one.  Question is,
> what would work well in Linux and connect to my rp-sma pig
> tail?
>
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2.6.10 is OLD .. yes upgrade .. it should certainly compile with the new
kernel source code.



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