[NTLUG:Discuss] RTL8180 Wireless Assistance needed.

[terry]

Stephen Davidson wrote:
> Hi Andrew.
> 
> This time its a PCI card, in Linux, and right now the Linux drivers
> are NOT compiling.  Something about a bad "include" path, and I am
> not enough up on C & Linux to be able to handle this efficiently
> myself.
> 
> Regards,
> Steve

Aaahhhaaa...
You only need to tell it the path to your kernel sources.  There should 
be something in the README or INSTALL file that tells about this issue, 
but all it amounts to is either correcting the Makefile's path to the 
kernel sources, (for YOUR system), or including [appending to the 'make' 
command] a comment that points to the kernel sources, AND, it needs to 
be the kernel your using, (that is if you have more than one kernel, be 
sure and point to the kernel sources of the kernel your running or the 
one you intend to run when you use the device).  You can also solve this 
by adding a symlink, for instance:
# ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-27.9/include /usr/src/linux/include

But the easiest way is to append the command, (this is prolly not exact, 
just guessing, but you should see something in the README or INSTALL 
file stating proper syntax, something like)
--with-includes-/path/to/include

and in my case it would probably be something like:

--with-includes-/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-27.9/include
or
--with-includes-/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-27.9/include/linux

You just experiment with it until you get the path right and it'll work.

So, it would probably look something like this:
$ make --with-includes-/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-27.9/include

I've been a round or two with this issue before and may be able to help 
you with it, that is if you haven't solved it before you get there. 
Anyway, this should give you something to play with, if you like.


> 
> Andrew Russell wrote:
> 
>> Steve,
>>
>> I don't know anything about the linux drivers. but I have an Airlink
>> usb wireless adapter, and I had problems with the software working in
>> Windows sometimes.  I just let windows handle it all and it works fine
>> now.
>>
>> I don't know if it helps, but I thought I would pass it along.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
> 


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