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>WARNING ABOUT WPC11 VERSION 4</TITLE
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>2. WARNING ABOUT WPC11 VERSION 4</H1
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>The NEW WPC11 CARDS HAVE Realtek 8180 CHIPSET
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INSTEAD OF THE RTL8180.</EM
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> Thanks to Juan Natera for
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clarification</P
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>It had come to my attention that the new version,
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Version 4 are not compatible with my old instructions. I include a set of
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instruction provided by bill atkins</P
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>Until I can clean this up, I include Bill atkins email for
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sake of urgency</P
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>Quote from Bill Atkins</P
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>OK.
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>First of all, make sure you have a V4 card. Type <TABLE
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>cardctl ident</PRE
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> as root.
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If one of the entries shown is a <TABLE
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>RealTek RTL8180L</PRE
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> or something similar,
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then you have a version 4 card.</P
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>If not, then you can probably just follow
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the rest of the instructions in the HOWTO.</P
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>Now you need to get drivers for the card. Go to RealTek's download
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AND do a search fo 8180 from the downloads section</P
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>or you can download the driver that works with Bill's email
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at
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>ftp://152.104.125.40/cn/wlan/rtl8180l/rtl8180_24x_suse82.zip</PRE
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>and pick up the drivers for SuSE (you don't need to be running SuSE for
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the drivers to work - I used them with Gentoo. However, the other divers
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don't seem to work at all).
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</P
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>Unpack the incoming tarball. As of this writing, there is a minor bug in
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the driver code that must be repaired in order to make the card work.</P
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>Open up r8180_type.h.</P
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>On line 128, you'll see a line with two slashes
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before the text. Remove these slashes. Now you're ready to build.</P
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>At the shell prompt, type make. The drivers will build themselves. If
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there are any problems making the drivers, open up the Makefile and check
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the kernel version settings on the first few lines.
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</P
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>Now open up the wlanup file.</P
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>Uncomment line 5 (remove the #) and change
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the SSID to the SSID of your network.</P
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>Uncomment line 8 and set the
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ssid2scan to your network's SSID. Uncomment line 9 and set the networktype
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to infra (unless you really are using adhoc). Save your changes.</P
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> </P
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>Now eject the card <TABLE
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>cardctl eject</PRE
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> and plug it in again.</P
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>From the
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directory where you unpacked the drivers, type <TABLE
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>insmod -f rtl8180_24x.o</PRE
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>You will get a warning - ignore it.
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</P
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>Now run the wlanup script found in the driver package. Your card should
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now appear when you type ifconfig. You should configure your IP address
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at this point. If you use DHCP, just type "dhcpd wlan0". Try pinging
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google.com. You should get replies back. If so, your card is working!
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>Now copy rtl8180_24x.o to /lib/modules/YOURKERNELNAME, where
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YORUKERNELNAME is the name of the directory in /lib/modules.</P
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>Then copy
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the wlanup and wlandown scripts to /sbin.
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