Building of r8187 module in 2.6.20

Mr Green · 2007-02-18 15:55:05

Hi,

Followed wiki guide for building r8187 module for my wireless card but I am getting errors

Anyone use the above module on there system have it working with 2.6.20?

TIA

quetzyg · 2007-02-19 11:08:44

Hi there!

I'm also interested in using this driver (in x86 and x86_64 kernels). I also get a bunch of errors when compiling against 2.6.20. The driver seems to use old struct variables that are no longer present in linux 2.6.20.
BTW, the CVS version of the driver seems to be outdated as well.

Help on this matter would be very appreciated!

Thanks,
Quetzy Garcia

Mr Green · 2007-02-19 14:54:49

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.p … tid=917159

I tried that one & it builds give it go ;-)

but not yet got it set up ....

quetzyg · 2007-02-19 17:58:00

Well, I downloaded revision 41 from SVN, and followed the install steps from the wiki.

I unloaded the ieee8211 stack modules, and loaded the ieee80211 stack from rtl-wifi.
After that, I loaded the driver, and no problems what so ever.

Next I did a scan to see if the my AP was being listed (did a ifconfig wlan0 up first). It shows up OK.

I then tried to connect to the access point using Arch network scripts, but I couldn't get connected (the AP is encrypted by the way).
In the network profile, I used the WPAOPTS without any arguments, and then with "-D ipw".

It gets BUSY for some time, and then it just prints FAIL. System logs didn't help me either.

Meanwhile, I'll keep on trying...

Thanks,
Quetzy Garcia

Mr Green · 2007-02-19 18:01:24

Thats about as far as I got .... not been able to connect to anything yet ;-(

Mr Green · 2007-02-19 21:36:57

Had a word with tpowa try loading r8169 module see if that works [part of 2.6.20]

HTH

quetzyg · 2007-02-20 12:34:51

I don't have that module compiled on the machine that has the Realtek 8187 USB wifi card.
Only on my laptop, but that module is for the Realtek Gigabit ethernet card, it doesn't have nothing to do with wireless, or does it?

Mr Green · 2007-02-20 13:23:45

well I can get module loaded ok but thats it atm ... just thought I would let you know check lsmod r8187 should be there

USB wifi card emmm will have to look into that

quetzyg · 2007-02-20 13:36:04

Mr Green wrote:

USB wifi card emmm will have to look into that

I forgot to mention, that I have an ASUS M2N-32 SLI-DELUXE mobo, that has an USB (altough, it doesn't look like a USB device, it uses the USB bus) wireless device with a realtek 8187 chip on it. You probably have a pci card with the same chipset, and find strange when I said USB, no?

Cheers,
Quetzy Garcia

Mr Green · 2007-02-20 14:41:37

I have a Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard no usb wifi does not sound strange [just not sure what it is lol!]

 lsmod | grep r8187
r8187                  38020  0 
ieee80211_rtl          74120  2 r8187
usbcore               115208  7 usb_storage,usbhid,hci_usb,r8187,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd

Last edited by Mr Green (2007-02-20 14:50:27)

quetzyg · 2007-02-20 14:56:56

Here is my lsusb output:

[quetzyg@HARDGROOVE ~]$ lsusb 
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0bda:8187 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0702 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 IDE Adapter
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:0904 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 845c
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c03f Logitech, Inc. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
[quetzyg@HARDGROOVE ~]$

There he is, in the first row.

Mr Green · 2007-02-20 15:34:59

Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0dc6:3000 Precision Squared Technology Corp. 
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8187 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

snap! right now what lol

quetzyg · 2007-02-28 19:50:57

There are some good news for us (I guess). Check them out.
I haven't tried them yet...

Mr Green · 2007-02-28 20:11:58

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.p … tid=917159

Was testing this one ... but yes I guess we may have a working [kernel] modules soon ;-)

axelgenus · 2007-05-06 15:10:22

Are there some news about Realtek 8187 USB dongles support under linux?

quetzyg · 2007-07-10 09:20:00

Here are some news

Snowman · 2007-07-13 06:52:37

Or you can use my rtl-wifi-svn package in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … 1&ID=11641

quetzyg · 2007-07-13 08:33:37

How about protected networks, does it play nice with wpa_supplicant?

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