I made significant progress today.
I manually edited the file /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_dev.c
There is a static structure near the top of the code,
static struct usb_device_id rtl8187_table[] __devinitdata = {
/* Realtek */
{USB_DEVICE(0x0bda, 0x8187)},
/* netgear */
{USB_DEVICE(0x0846, 0x6100)},
{USB_DEVICE(0x0846, 0x6a00)},
{}
};
I added the line
{USB_DEVICE(0x0bda, 0x8197)},
in the /* Realtek */ area of the structure, then ran
make clean, then
make && make modules_install etc.
After rebooting into the modified kernel, I now have iwmaster0 and iwlan0
lines showing up when I type iwconfig.
The applicable lines of iwconfig are
wmaster0 no wireless extensions
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID="mynetworkESSID"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.417GHz Access Point:
Not associated
Retry min limit 7 RTS thr:off Fragment
thr=2346B
Encryption key:<not telling you>
Link Quality:0 Signal Level:0 Noise
Level:0
Rx Invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx
invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed
beacon:0
I'm not all the way there yet, but this is significant progress.
wpa_supplicant gui still is blank, with the message 'could not get status from
WPA_supplicant', but at least now I have an interface showing up
It appears that it cannot find an access point. The access point is active,
as I can connect my work laptop to it, but so far, the laptop can't see it.
Any further advice gratefully received.
Jeff
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 06:09:50 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> I've tried to run through the instructions at
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rtl8187.
>
> The kernel is configured per that guide, and I get the message:
> usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
>
> When I try to run ifconfig wlan0 up, however, I get:
> wlan0: unknown interface: no such device
>
> I get the same result if I run ifconfig wlan up (net.wlan is the symlink
> that I set up in /etc/init.d)
>
> The wireless section of my /etc/conf.d/net file reads
> mode_wlan="managed"
> wpa_supplicant_wlan="-Dwext -c
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant_RTL8187.conf" config_wlan=( "dhcp" )
> dhcp_wlan="-R -G"
>
> wpa_supplicant has been emerged.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Sunday 16 December 2007 12:14:42 pm Mick wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> > > All I get for iwconfig is
> > > lo no wireless extensions
> > > eth0 no wireless extensions.
> >
> > This means that the driver has not been loaded yet. In generic terms
> > you'll need to install the necessary driver for your WiFi device (either
> > the new one in the kernel or emerge net-wireless/rtl8187, or ndiswrapper
> > and the MS Windows driver). If you build the driver as a module then you
> > need to modprobe -v rtl8187, while you keep an eye on the logs to see how
> > things go (tail -f /var/log/messages). You have seen this, right?
> >
> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rtl8187
> >
> > > I think I need some more info in /etc/conf.d/net, and need somehow to
> > > create the necessary /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 or whatever driver.
> > >
> > > The only 'net.anything' drivers present at the moment are net.lo and
> > > net.eth0
> >
> > You will of course have to manually create a symlink between net.wlan0 ->
> > net.lo (or whatever your new WiFi device is recognised as by the kernel)
> > so that you can bring it up by running /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start. But
> > this is only necessary for autoloading the driver through the runlevel
> > scripts. To try it out follow the instructions in the Wiki page above.
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