Wireless Networking
I have the Linksys v4 wireless ethernet card.
I almost gave up on it trying to get it to work with debian.
I am very impressed with JDS hardware detection.
My wireless came up as a Realtek, but did not install the kernel driver for it.
I have tried the rtl8180_24x for RH9, and have it installed in kernel.
Wireless tools with JDS are working (iwconfig,iwpriv,etc), but....
I know i am close at getting it to work , any body else use LINKSYS wpc11 ver4 ?
I can get the light to blink, and /proc/net/rtl8180/status shows "LINK SUCCESS!!" .
The light shouldn't blink , but should be steady on, and I cannot ping anything?
help please, as I will bow down to JDS if this card works.
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wew64] at [2007-11-25 11:14:50]
# 1
Have you tried the 8180 driver from their site?
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?Keyword=rtl8180
Available rtl8180 drivers use iwpriv instead of iwconfig. I have noticed packet loss errors with existing linux and OSX drivers for this chipset. This may make it difficult to use WEP. Here is an example of an rtlwlanup script for the RTL8180
#Load module
#/sbin/insmod -f rtl8180_24x.o
#Set SSID
/usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para ssid=yourssid
/usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para networktype=adhoc
/usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para channel=8
#/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para encmode=wep
#/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para wepmode=wep40,wepdkeyid=0,wepkey40_1=1234567890
/usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para wepmode=off
#Enable wireless lan driver
/usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 enable
/sbin/ifup wlan0
#Configure wlan0 IP address
#/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.5
echo "$(/sbin/ifconfig wlan0)"
# 3
Why is wireless configuration on JDS so user-unfriendlty compared to setting it up on Windows?
Surely, Sun has seen how easy it is to set up on Windows to use it as a baseline of what users expect.
When will wireless be easier to configure on JDS?
We are using wireless on Windows with dual boot until this is resolved and would like to avoid using Windows.
sunvp at 2007-7-1 22:49:59 >
