[NTLUG:Discuss] RTL8180 Wireless Assistance needed.

[terry]

Stephen Davidson wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I have a computer I am trying to set up as a firewall.
> 
> I purchased an Airlink 802.11b card (with an RTL8180L chipset) from 
> FRY's.  The staff at the service counter was able to install the 
> original drivers from RealTek, but unfortunately they don't appear to 
> work.  So I did some hunting,  and found some new drivers that were made 
> available by Realtek yesterday.  One of the issues addressed appears to 
> be one of the issues preventing this card from working, so I would like 
> to install new drivers. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to get 
> this software to compile.
> 
> I will be at the Linux install project this Saturday, with System (and 
> keyboard and monitor), hoping for assistance.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Steve
> 

Question:
Is this in a laptop or a desktop, pcmci or pci?

FYI:
Compiling from source is pretty much same for all:
("source-1.2.3-1" is hypothetical file name)
$ tar -zxvf source-1.2.3-1.tar.gz
$ cd source-1.2.3-1
$ ./configure
$ make
$ su -
# make install