[newbie] need help installing driver for wireless card, Dlink DWL 520 chipset: rtl8180

[jimmy]

Hello, everyone
 
I am new to this list and also a newbie for linux. I
want to get my wireless card working in linux. It is
Dlink DWL 520 with reaktek rtl8180 chipset. Somewhat
expert users please help me :)
 
I am writing what I have done till now:

I found the driver from realtek site

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?Keyword=rtl8180

It contains precompiled driver rtl8180_24x.o for
redhat 9, kernel 2.4.20 and also source code and
script files to bring the interface up and down.

I have Mandrake 9.2 so thought I have to compile it
myself. I downloaded kernel source rpm, installed it.
Then did make, to compile the driver I don't know if
it worked but it showed 2 or 3 warnings and generated
the output rtl8180.o
then I did makeinstall
now when I run the script './wlanup infra'
it shows following,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rtl8180_1.5]# ./wlanup infra
insmod: a module named rtl8180_24x already exists
infra
./wlanup: line 23: /sbin/iwpriv: No such file or
directory
./wlanup: line 24: /sbin/iwpriv: No such file or
directory
./wlanup: line 52: /sbin/iwpriv: No such file or
directory
./wlanup: line 53: /sbin/iwpriv: No such file or
directory
./wlanup: line 64: /sbin/iwpriv: No such file or
directory
./wlanup: line 72: /sbin/iwpriv: No such file or
directory

I am writing commands on these lines in wlanup script
for reference
23   /sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para networktype=infra
24   /sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para ssid2scan=iit
52   /sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para encmode=off
53   /sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para wepmode=off
64   /sbin/iwpriv wlan0 msglevel 0
72   /sbin/iwpriv wlan0 enable

Thank you.

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Re: [newbie] need help installing driver for wireless card, Dlink DWL 520 chipset: rtl8180

[H.J.Bathoorn]

On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:28, jimmy wrote:
 ./wlanup: line 72: /sbin/iwpriv: No such file or
 directory

You need to install iwpriv!;)
BTW you don't need to add the option infra as it's already specified in the 
wlanup script. You might want to change that to ad-hoc if there's no access 
point available but you want to connect to another box that is also 
configured ad-hoc.

Look for the package with the software installer using iwpriv as a search in 
files and descriptions. I'm not to sure any more in which package it was 
included but I suspect wireless-tools.

Frankly I tried the same procedure for a RTL8180ver2 card but it wouldn't work 
properly on my system . Even building my module from source and using that 
instead of the RH one didn't working nicely, so YMMV.

Using the linuxant driver-wrapper was a much better/easier option.
There's more on the twiki (the first place to look;))down below - look for 
Hardware, network devices

Good luck,
HarM

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