Re: Wireless Problems - Ubuntu 8.04

Re: Wireless Problems - Ubuntu 8.04

[Larry Finger]

Susan Higashi wrote:
> Thanks for your explanation Larry, here is what you asked:
> 
> 07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
> RTL8180L 802.11b MAC [10ec:8180] (rev 20)
>     Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L 802.11b MAC 
> [10ec:8180]
>     Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17
>     I/O ports at 1400 [disabled] [size=256]
>     Memory at 38000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=512]
>     Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

Your device should be handled by the driver rtl8180. Try the command 
'sudo /sbin/modprobe -rv rtl8180' to see what happens. If the driver 
loads with that command and your wireless device is available in 
iwconfig, then look for an entry in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist that 
keeps it from loading.

Larry

Re: Wireless Problems - Ubuntu 8.04

[Larry Finger]

Susan Higashi wrote:
> I tried  'sudo /sbin/modprobe -rv rtl8180', and the message appered: 
> "FATAL: Module rtl8180 not found."

Obviously, Ubuntu did not configure your device, thus the rtl8180 
driver is not available. First of all, you need to conttact Ubuntu to 
discover if this has been changed for Hardy kernels, or if this driver 
is enabled in the Intrepid alpha kernels. If not, then you need to 
either build compat-wireless, or apt-get the parts needed to build a 
kernel so that you can add this driver to the configuration. The 
instructions on how to build and install your own kernel for Ubuntu 
and any other Debian-based system are well covered on the Web, and are 
way off topic for this mailing list.

> So, I tried iwconfig the following happened: "lo        no wireless 
> extensions." and "eth0      no wireless extensions."
> I also tried the steps in this link:  
> http://rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net/wiki/Installing, which looked to work, 
> but it didn't work.... =(

All of the above are expected.

Larry