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PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:08 pm    Post subject: Linksys WPC11 Ver. 4 - Wireless Made EASY!!! [SOLVED] Reply with quote

I have been racking my brain with this cheap card. I've been through all the forums and couldn't find a solution. Eventually I came across a project on sourceforge where some lovely people were building an opensource driver for the card http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtl8180-sa2400. Well I tried compiling that and got all kinds of lovely bugs. After scouring the sourceforge forums I saw a post from one of the devlopers stating that the driver had been merged into PORTAGE!!!!! :D So here is how you get your rtl8180 (WPC11 ver. 4) working.


Code:
 # emerge rtl8180

Code:
 # /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart

Code:
 # lsmod

verify the new modules are loaded
Code:
 # iwconfig wlan0 essid YOURESSID key YOURWEPKEY



I added the iwconfig line to the top of my /etc/init.d/conf.d/net.wlan0

The card works absolutely perfectly. Thank you to the RTL8180 programmers and thanks to gentoo for the addition to PORTAGE!!!!!

BTW - I am running this card on a SONY PCG-505FX - Pentium-MMX 266 with 64 mb ram. Works like a charm...
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

localhost ~ # emerge rtl8180
Calculating dependencies
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "rtl8180" have been masked.
!!! One of the masked packages is required to complete your request:
- net-wireless/rtl8180-0.22_pre20050528 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
refer to the Gentoo

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What does this mean? When I try to emerge rtl8180 that shows up. What can I do about this?
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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ocalhost ~ # emerge rtl8180
Calculating dependencies
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "rtl8180" have been masked.
!!! One of the masked packages is required to complete your request:
- net-wireless/rtl8180-0.22_pre20050528 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)


I have the same message. See if http://gentoo-wiki.com/Masked works for you. I haven't tried it yet but it looks like it will fix the problem.
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