Dlink wireless NIC in Fedora 2...

[onrdbandit]

Howdy,

I am extremly new to Linux (i.e. a few days), and I cannot figure out how to install the drivers for my wlan card. I got them as third party drivers from realtek I believe thorough the dlink site.

I followed the README instructions to the best of my ability, but cannot successfully "make" the module/package or whatever it is called.

I tried to use "insmod -f rtl8180_24x.o", but got an error saying command not found.

So, I turned to option 2 and tried to compile the thing. I changed the include paths in the makefile like the instructions said. Then tried to "make" but got the error, or rather about 50 errors complete w/ warnings attached. I have tried this about 7 times from start to finish, but without any assistance, I think I am stuck hardwired to the net...

Thanks for any assistance and sorry for the post length,
onrdbandit

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

 

[stefanwagner]

Well - show us the error.
Don't show 50 warnings, if they look similar (deprecated header for instance... missing cast...unused variable...)

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[jonlake]

What model card do you have? I had a fun time getting my 520 to work. I used the Host-AP drivers.

http://home.columbus.rr.com/andrewbarr/linux/dwl520e1.html

If you have the same card.

 

[onrdbandit]

Howdy,

I have a DWL 650 rev. M

The error messages I am getting are coming from what I can only assume is the linux source includes (i.e. /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/include/linux/...).

There are numberous types of errors:
ex 1: "storage size of 'i_dat' unknown"
ex 2: "syntax error before 'mode_t'"
ex 3: "previous declaration of 'size'"
ex 4: "'addr' undeclared"
ex 5: "conflicting types for 'resource'"
etc...

I am getting the feeling that the driver I downloaded is nolonger applicable to the more resent kernel releases, but I really don't know what I am talking about.

Thanks for all the assistance,
onrdbandit

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

 

[jonlake]

Here are a few links I have found. Just incase you didn't know, google has a search engine entirely for linux.

http://www.google.com/linux

These are from a forum on the redhat site

http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/

http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk/madwifi-faq.htm

Jon

 

[flugh]

[tt]
ex 1: "storage size of 'i_dat' unknown"
ex 2: "syntax error before 'mode_t'"
ex 3: "previous declaration of 'size'"
[/tt]
That looks more like you're using a source code file than a compiled kernel module. Try "[tt]modprobe rtl8180_24x[/tt]" and see if you get any better results.

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JBR