Wirless driver for Puppy 202 with rtl8180

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Wirless driver for Puppy 202 with rtl8180

#1 Post by kirk »

Here's the rtl8180 driver for Puppy 202, patched for injection. Just click module_load to load the modules.
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#2 Post by Sit Heel Speak »

Thanks!

(although, being a believer in the harmfulness of gigahertz microwave radiation, I use wireless as little as possible--don't use my cellphone too much, either...)

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#3 Post by kirk »

Don't forget that tin hat! :D

My fisrt computer was a C64 too. I was going to get a vic20 but I herd about the 64 and thought "What would you ever do with 64k of ram."

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#4 Post by Veggen »

Thank you!
Just what I needed, works great with my rtl8180 based Topcom skyracer pc card 4011b.

How would I make this load automatically at boot?
I have tried adding some lines in rc.local but I am not getting it to work.
Being a linux noob, it would be great if someone could spell it out for me...
Thanks in advance.

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#5 Post by kirk »

How would I make this load automatically at boot?
Add this to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

insmod /path-to-modules/ieee80211_crypt-r8180.ko
insmod /path-to-modules/ieee80211_crypt_wep-r8180.ko
insmod /path-to-modules/ieee80211-r8180.ko
insmod /path-to-modules/r8180.ko
ifconfig wlan0 up

Replace "/path-to-modules/" with the path to where you put them.
For example:

insmod /root/rtl8180-pup202/ieee80211_crypt-r8180.ko

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#6 Post by Veggen »

Ahhh, so you have to call the modules individually.
I was trying to call module_load directly, why would that not work?

Anyway it worked beatifully, and combined with rutilt's run-at-boot option I am now automatically connected to my WLAN at boot.

Thanks again.

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#7 Post by sejjiin »

When I insmod (or modprobe) these in 2.02, I get a "can not find module error;" however, everything works fine when I run the load_module script. Out of curiosity, why would this occur? The commands I type into the console match exactly the script except for the #!/bin/bash thing (whatever that does).

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#8 Post by kirk »

When I insmod (or modprobe) these in 2.02, I get a "can not find module error;" however, everything works fine when I run the load_module script. Out of curiosity, why would this occur? The commands I type into the console match exactly the script except for the #!/bin/bash thing (whatever that does).
Probably because your not in the same directory as the modules when you try to load them. You need to cd to the directory that contains the modules then insmod them or give the path to them. For example, insmod /root/rtl8180/rtl8180.ko, that's not the correct names but you get the point. :)

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#9 Post by sejjiin »

You're right. What I did was, after extracting the tarball to .../net/wireless/rtl8180-pup202, I moved everything to the parent directory (.../net/wireless/) and then tried to insmod. This didn't work. After running insmod from the original rtl8180-pup202 directory everything was extracted to and not trying to move anything, it all worked fine. Thanks for the help.

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