RTL8180 Ubuntu Package

[Termina]

This is the rtl8180-sa2400 package from sourceforge.

It doesn't compile (easily) on ubuntu, but I finnally got it working.

Thought I'd share it with everyone who uses that chipset.

See this website for a list of cards that are known to work.
http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/

This was compiled using the 2.6.12-10-386 kernel, I'm not sure if it'll work with any other kernels.

Make sure to add

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

to /etc/network/interfaces

This is my first package, so I hope you enjoy it. Anyone know how I can submit it to the ubuntu respositories?

This module should load on bootup, but to load it manually:

insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/net/rtl8180/ieee80211_crypt-r8180.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/net/rtl8180/ieee80211_crypt_wep-r8180.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/net/rtl8180/ieee80211-r8180.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/net/rtl8180/r8180.ko

Unlike using ndiswrapper, or the provided realtek drivers, this can go into managed/monitor mode.

I had to use .tar.gz which contains .deb file, since I couldn't upload it otherwise.

Enjoy!

[alesdoc]

This is the rtl8180-sa2400 package from sourceforge.

It doesn't compile (easily) on ubuntu, but I finnally got it working.

Hi,

thanks for your package

I friend of mine has an rtl8180. Using ndiswrapper we've installed it, but after a reinstallation the ndiswrapper doesn't work. It's crazy because we've done tha same things.....but it doesn't work. We'va also tried to compile the source but we couldn't do it.

Can you tell me....how have you done?

Thanks a lot

[orbinick]

It works for me as intended, flawlessly, but you're right, I use the 686 kernel and it doesn't work.

Luckily, I keep my previous grub boot kernels.

EDIT

Found a windows driver that works on any kernel with ndiswrapper, even at boot!!

Find my post here:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=96319

and try it out. But I'd rather use your DEB based driver because it works as it was intended so I can't wait for a new compiled deb

[encompass]

Fantastic I think it is working... I will try it when I get a wireless connection to use at the school. Thanks! I have looked everywhere for a driver and I hope this will work.

[sutech]

It works

This is really great! I had a problem with ndiswrapper (quite frequent kernel panic, at least one per day ). And this may solve my problem (it isn't up more then 10 minutes, but I hope)

[Gandalf]

insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/net/rtl8180/ieee80211_crypt-r8180.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/net/rtl8180/ieee80211_crypt_wep-r8180.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/net/rtl8180/ieee80211-r8180.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/net/rtl8180/r8180.ko

It should be instead:

modprobe ieee80211_crypt-r8180
modprobe ieee80211_crypt_wep
modprobe ieee80211-r8180
modprobe r8180

but i'm pretty sure that running modprobe r8180 will add the others, i can't confirm it because i dont have this card to try it but you can try it yourself by doing rmmod instead of modprobe in the reversed order to the above modules names

[az]

Hi,

thanks for your package

I friend of mine has an rtl8180. Using ndiswrapper we've installed it, but after a reinstallation the ndiswrapper doesn't work. It's crazy because we've done tha same things.....but it doesn't work. We'va also tried to compile the source but we couldn't do it.

Can you tell me....how have you done?

Thanks a lot

the newset version of ndiswrapper always uses the newest version of the inf file. The INF file that came with your card may be too old for ndiswrapper. that is why it may work fine until you upgrade from, say, hoary to breezy and then it stops working. It should work fine if you use the very latest inf file from realtek.

[az]

This is the rtl8180-sa2400 package from sourceforge.

It doesn't compile (easily) on ubuntu, but I finnally got it working.

Thought I'd share it with everyone who uses that chipset.

See this website for a list of cards that are known to work.
http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/

This was compiled using the 2.6.12-10-386 kernel, I'm not sure if it'll work with any other kernels.

Make sure to add



to /etc/network/interfaces

This is my first package, so I hope you enjoy it. Anyone know how I can submit it to the ubuntu respositories?

This module should load on bootup, but to load it manually:



Unlike using ndiswrapper, or the provided realtek drivers, this can go into managed/monitor mode.

I had to use .tar.gz which contains .deb file, since I couldn't upload it otherwise.

Enjoy!

I will see if this has been discussed on the ubuntu kernel-team mailing list. It would be a great driver to include in the stock kernel!

[jamesshuang]

When I tried to compile the driver, I got a pointer error. Oddly enough, when I went in and removed the pointer operator, it compiled fine and ran fine too. Any clues on why? :-p

[forbmj]

how can we enable the WPA support with this driver? Thanks.