Bug 229757 - Card Wifi not driver realtek 8180
Summary: Card Wifi not driver realtek 8180
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 10.2
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Network (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: i586 Other
: P5 - None : Normal with 5 votes (vote)
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Assignee: Joachim Gleissner
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Reported: 2006-12-19 20:15 UTC by Michel Morisot
Modified: 2009-05-04 22:09 UTC (History)
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Description Michel Morisot 2006-12-19 20:15:41 UTC 
good morning

My card wifi (realtek 8180) not driver the opensuse 10.2. 
In the 10.1, this one (r8180.ko) belonged to the rpm wlan-kpm-defect but not in the 10.2. Is this normal?

Thank you
Comment 2 Michel Morisot 2006-12-21 07:41:19 UTC 
error : rpm wlan-kpm-default is not wlan-kpm-defect,  of course.
Comment 3 Matthias Günter 2006-12-27 23:41:38 UTC 
As it seems difficult to create these driver on ones own (always trouble with make) I would appreciate to see a patch. Installing the single RPM from 10.1 is not working due to inconsistencies with the kernel-sources. A work-around would also be helpful. Thanks
Comment 4 Joachim Gleissner 2007-01-12 17:01:17 UTC 
This driver is using a 802.11 stack conflicting with the in-kernel one, hence it is not trivial to include the driver, and was disabled in 10.2. ndiswrapper may be used as an interim solution.
Comment 5 Matthias Günter 2007-01-13 12:33:17 UTC 
Unfortunately I wanted to use the wifi card in master mode, which is not supported with ndiswrapper. For normal use I think it would work.
Comment 6 Michel Morisot 2007-01-13 13:06:48 UTC 
I managed to make it function with ndiswrapper in mode “managed” after many installation and desinstallation of the network card. How? good question.
Comment 8 Joachim Gleissner 2007-12-20 14:52:08 UTC 
There is a lot of work in progress in the mainline kernel, IIRC some Realtek drivers have been added already. So I assume we will have a driver via upstream in the near future. For now, ndiswrapper is a reasonable replacement. It's a pity that ndiswrapper does not support master mode, but that is not critical as it is most probably not used widely, and we cannot do anything about it anyway at the moment. Hence, resolving as WONTFIX.
Comment 10 Swamp Workflow Management 2009-05-04 22:09:50 UTC 
Update released for: sysconfig
Products:
SLE-DEBUGINFO 10-SP2 (i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64)
SLE-DESKTOP 10-SP2 (i386, x86_64)
SLE-RT 10-SP2 (i386, x86_64)
SLE-SERVER 10-SP2 (i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64)