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Hi all,

Andrea told me that he doesn't work anymore on this driver, so can anyone 
suggest my how debug my problems ? 

TIA
Goffredo

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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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