READY TO PUBLISH. This How-to should be considered obsolete and no longer up-to-date and is offered up for adoption since I no longer have the equipment to make sure this stuff works

LDP/howto/docbook/Wireless-Link-sys-WPC11.sgml

@@ -22,6 +22,19 @@
     </author>
 
 <revhistory>
+      <revision>
+	<revnumber>2.2.4</revnumber>
+	<date>2004-06-03</date>
+	<authorinitials>gea</authorinitials>
+	
+
+	<revremark>Cleaning up this HOW-TO. I have since moved on and
+	offer this document for adoption or at least consider it
+	obsolete at this time.  Also my (ex) girl friend never did
+	write the documentation to how she got the card working with
+	Suse. Sorry.
+</revremark>
+      </revision>
       <revision>
 	<revnumber>2.2.3</revnumber>
 	<date>2003-07-31</date>
@@ -130,19 +143,6 @@
       <title>Where to Get Most Recent Updates</title>
     <para>The most recent updates to this mini-doc are at the  <ulink url="http://www.mung.net">mung[dot]net</ulink>.  If you mirror this document, please try to keep it the most recent one.</para>
     </sect2>
-    <sect2>
-    <title>Request for Help</title>
-    <para>These are things that still need to be included and on which I would appreciate any input. 
-      <itemizedlist>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>Get WEP working</para>
-	</listitem>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>Support other distributions?</para>
-	</listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-    </para>
-    </sect2>
   </sect1>
 
   <sect1>
@@ -165,8 +165,8 @@ Quote from Bill Atkins</para>
 OK.
     </para>
     <para>
-First of all, make sure you have a V4 card.  Type 'cardctl ident' as root.
- If one of the entries shown is a "RealTek RTL8180L" or something similar,
+First of all, make sure you have a V4 card.  Type <screen>cardctl ident</screen> as root.
+ If one of the entries shown is a <screen>RealTek RTL8180L</screen> or something similar,
       then you have a version 4 card.</para>
       <caution>
 	<para>
@@ -189,23 +189,35 @@ don't seem to work at all).
     <para>
 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.
-    </para>
+</para>
+    <para>Open up r8180_type.h.</para>
+<caution>
+	<para>
+On line 128, you'll see a line with two slashes
+before the text.  Remove these slashes.  Now you're ready to build.</para>
+    </caution>
+
     <para>
 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.
     </para>
     <para>
-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.
-    </para>
+Now open up the wlanup file.</para>
+    <para>
+Uncomment line 5 (remove the #) and change
+the SSID to the SSID of your network.</para>
+    <para>
+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.</para>
+    <para>
+
+    <para>
+Now eject the card <screen>cardctl eject</screen> and plug it in again.</para>
+    <para>From the
+directory where you unpacked the drivers, type <screen>insmod -f rtl8180_24x.o</screen></para>
     <para>
-Now eject the card ('cardctl eject') and plug it in again.  From the
-directory where you unpacked the drivers, type insmod -f rtl8180_24x.o.
 You will get a warning  - ignore it.
     </para>
     <para>
@@ -215,9 +227,9 @@ 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!
     </para>
     <para>
-
 Now copy rtl8180_24x.o to /lib/modules/YOURKERNELNAME, where
-YORUKERNELNAME is the name of the directory in /lib/modules.  Then copy
+YORUKERNELNAME is the name of the directory in /lib/modules.</para>
+    <para>Then copy
 the wlanup and wlandown scripts to /sbin.
     </para>
   </sect1>