[please CC me because I am not subscribed to the linux-wireless]
Hi Andrea, Michael,
I have a pcmcia RealTek 8180L wireless card [1]. This card seems to don't work
with the official kernel driver.
Using the 2.6.28-rc [2] the card goes up, but it doesn't associate to the
Access Point (with and without encryption).
I tried also the Ubuntu 8.10 kernel with the same results.
The dmesg says (00:90:96... is the Access Point):
[...]
[ 764.724277] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 765.952118] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:90:96:47:16:1d
[ 766.152083] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:90:96:47:16:1d
[ 766.352140] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:90:96:47:16:1d
[ 766.552093] wlan0: authentication with AP 00:90:96:47:16:1d timed out
[...]
iwconfig says:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"ghigowlan"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management:off
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
Sometime I note that the Access Point appears in the iwconfig output. But the
net still doesn't work.
I think that the problem is in the latest kernel because with a (OLD) kernel
2.6.18 and the driver availables on the site rtl-wifi.sourgeforce.net, the
device work quite well (w/ encryption).
Enclosed you can see the uname,dmesg,lsmod,lspci,iwconfig,ifconfig for both
the kernel 2.6.28-rc2 and 2.6.18-6-686+driver from rtl-wifi.
If your need more info, please doesn't hesitate to contact me.
BR
Goffredo
[1]
ghigo@botolino:~$ lspci -vvvvvvvvvvvv
[...]
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L 802.11b
MAC (rev 20)
Subsystem: Actiontec Electronics Inc Device 6113
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64 (8000ns min, 16000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256]
Region 1: Memory at 3c000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: rtl8180
Kernel modules: rtl8180
[2]
$ git log | head -10
commit 7f82f000ed030d1108b4de47d9e2d556092980c6
Merge: d6c3112... 879129d...
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Oct 30 12:16:38 2008 -0700
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm:
dm snapshot: wait for chunks in destructor
dm snapshot: fix register_snapshot deadlock
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