Errors compiling RTL8180 driver

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Tue Aug 24 12:44:23 UTC 2004


Martin Canovas wrote:
> I'm trying to make my Netgear wireless pcmcia card to work under FC2.
> I downloaded the driver for it, RTL8180 version 1.5. However, when I
> try to compile I'm getting lots of errors.

It looks at a quick Google as though that's a 2.4 driver, which will
neither compile (as you discovered) nor work with a 2.6 kernel.
Sorry.

Apparently Jeff Garzik has been looking at writing an open-source
driver:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=1cGNQ-3DU-3%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DJeff%2520Garzik%2520RTL8180%26num%3D20%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg
(sorry about the length of that link!)

James.

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