On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Michael Robinson <plu...@robinson-west.com>wrote:
> Doing a cat /proc/pci my Zonet PCI wireless card comes up as a > RealTek 8180L card. Note the L, I think it means that this card > is quite different from some other 8180 series cards. I have a > free driver from sourceforge that works on 2.6 kernels, but I'm > noticing that it isn't perfect. Randomly, the card just stops > working. If you are ssh'ed in over this card, you'll be going > along fine and without warning everything stops. I'm wondering > if I should upgrade from 2.6.10 to a much later kernel because > of the possibility that the driver won't compile at all for a > newer kernel? > > I tried to use a 2.6 kernel specific driver from RealTek, but that > driver is specific to the 2.6.9 Fedora Core 3 kernel and does > not work with 2.6.10. Worse, I am not impressed with how this > driver was implemented as it doesn't plug in nicely with the way > things are standardly done in Slackware. > > Most of the time when the card is working, I notice a 96/100 for > link quality. When it is working, it works well. That's the > trouble, it doesn't always work. > > I am somewhat suspicious of my Linksys WAP11 AP, version 2.6 on > the bottom. Power cycling it sometimes brings the link back up, > which seems odd. > > I have rtl8180-0.21.tar.gz source code from sourceforge. Is this > the latest version of this driver? Is anyone maintaining this > driver to try and get it working with more of the 8180 cards > out there? I have 3 open standard 16 bit pcmcia slots. I could > get a pcmcia wireless card to replace this one. Question is, > what would work well in Linux and connect to my rp-sma pig > tail? > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > 2.6.10 is OLD .. yes upgrade .. it should certainly compile with the new kernel source code. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug