Hi!
I'm running 8.09 on a Linksys NSLU2. I want to add WLAN support through a Realtek RTL8187-based USB stick.
As 8.09 does not deliver an appropriate module, I have built the modules from rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net using the toolchain. Building and installing worked out fine, but I get no interface like wlan* or something.
This is the dmesg output:
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP'
Linux kernel driver for RTL8180 / RTL8185 based WLAN cards
Copyright (c) 2004-2005, Andrea Merello
rtl8180: Initializing module
rtl8180: Wireless extensions version 22
rtl8180: Initializing proc filesystem
Linux kernel driver for RTL8187 based WLAN cards
Copyright (c) 2004-2005, Andrea Merello
rtl8187: Initializing module
rtl8187: Wireless extensions version 22
rtl8187: Initializing proc filesystem
usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
[...]
rtl8187: Reported EEPROM chip is a 93c46 (1Kbit)
rtl8187: Card MAC address is 00:e0:4c:00:f9:be
rtl8187: Card reports RF frontend Realtek 8225
rtl8187: WW:This driver has EXPERIMENTAL support for this chipset.
rtl8187: WW:use it with care and at your own risk and
rtl8187: WW:**PLEASE** REPORT SUCCESS/INSUCCESS TO andreamrl@tiscali.it
rtl8187: This seems a legacy 1st version radio
rtl8187: PAPE from CONFIG2: 0
rtl8187: Driver probe completed
This is the ifconfig output:
br-lan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:5A:0F:D3:F0
inet addr:192.168.10.30 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:864 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:136 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:77305 (75.4 KiB) TX bytes:19481 (19.0 KiB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:5A:0F:D3:F0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:868 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:135 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:77792 (75.9 KiB) TX bytes:19079 (18.6 KiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
This is the output of lsmod | grep 8187:
r8187 28036 0
ieee80211_rtl 39523 2 r8187,r8180
eeprom_93cx6 1024 2 r8187,r8180
usbcore 84468 6 ftdi_sio,usbserial,usbnet,ehci_hcd,r8187
There is also some information located at /proc/2410/net/rtl8187/wlan0 (registers, stats-rx, stats-tx).
For me it looks like the modules were loaded successfully. But why is the interface missing?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Mario
(Last edited by Lostmind on 25 Mar 2009, 09:07)