Re: RTL 8185

[Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Barkle <barkle@gmx.net> wrote:
> Barkle schrieb:
>>
>> Hin-Tak Leung schrieb:
>>>
>>> I am asking to a 2nd time - try compat-wireless.
>>
>> When I compile compat-wireless, I get an error
>>
> After commenting out in the file "config.mk" the line
> #CONFIG_MAC80211_LEDS=y

Hmm, your kernel config did not seem to have LEDS_TRIGGER defined.
That's a problem with non-distro custom-rolled kernel... For that
matter, which bits of the kernel did you build as modules and which
compiled in? I guess I need the output of these two commands:

    lsmod
    find /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates

> the code compiles without an error.
> Then "make install", reboot and "wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0
> -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -W -dd" => kernel freeze.

Hmm, can you *not* run wpa_supplicant? This is about the 3rd time I
asked - if you are not using encryption, you don't need
wpa_supplicant. You should be doing just 'ifconfig wlan0 up', and
'ifconfig wlan0' and 'iwconfig wlan0' and see what they say. And do
*not* do it in X - if there is any last minute crash message, it would
be in the text console and you should be better doing these in
run-level 3.

> What else can I do?
> Where can I see which version of the driver are used?

There isn't really a 'version' for the driver - it entered the kernel
about a year and half ago, and only a few people had worked on it
since, and not in any major way.