Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

[Jeff Cranmer]

Final piece of info for the day.

When I ran dhcpcd wlan0, I get
Error, wlan0: timed out
Error, wlan0: lease information file '/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-wlan0.info' does 
not exist

Any assistance gratefully received

Jeff


On Wednesday 19 December 2007 09:47:55 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> 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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