Lan Barnes wrote:
> On Sat, June 21, 2008 5:12 pm, Lan Barnes wrote:
>> Well, I can get the damned Airlink working through ndiswrapper with the
>> kernerl with 4K stacks disabled, but open with an open connection. Even
>> WEP is too much for it.
>>
>> Not acceptable.
>>
>> Also, I want to see how robust the connection is.
>>
>> This really sucks. Yeah, I know I but cheapshit stuff, but even so, some
>> things have been around long enough to just work.
>>
>> So what information should I wrap up and send? Anything?
>>
>
> And the answer is ... the connection is pretty damned fragile.
>
> fsck ndiswrapper anyway. I've never had any real success with it.
>
> Back to the search for a native driver.
>
Are you by any chance using an RTL8185 wireless chip?
I recently went through some grief playing with an Airlink "802.11G
wireless PCI Adapter" to try to test it prior to shipping to someone
who is going to install in on a VistaBox.
I found:
- the standard linux rt8180 module worked ..um, sortof. Well, not
really. :-( The signal strength was so low that iwlist and iwconfig
claimed to communicate at only 1-2Mbps. And I kinda recall not really
being able to do _anything_ useful other than merely (just barely)
detect an AP.
- the ndiswrapper package from F9 and LinuxMint didn't work either. Both
(IIRC) seemed to crash linux -- not just X, but TWDT! I suppose that's
one risk of (any) binary driver, but especially Windows binaries under
ndiswrapper.
- strangely, after seeing a remark on some ubu. forum that PClinuxOS had
gotten ndiswrapper to work, I tried a PClinusOS derivative ("TinyME") I
happened to have around, and by dingies, it did work!! I was able to
test that the radio worked, and association under WEP and WPA both
worked. I even tested the thoughput and found it matched my laptop's
iwl3945. So I shipped it. :-) I suspect PCLinuxOP may have had some
bugfix patched into ndiswrapper -- but I didn't follow up on it. BTW
PCLinusOS is itself derived from Mandriva, I think.
bottom line: I'm wary (but hopeful) of RTL8185 devices.
Regards,
..jim
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