RTL 8180 Native Wi-Fi (2nd try)

I recently purchased an 802.11b PCMCIA card with a Realtek 8180
chipset. I used PB 5.0 to build an OS image for a VIA mainboard (using
VIA's recently published BSP), then added Native Wi-Fi STA
(SYSGEN_NWIFI_STA), Native Wi-Fi AP (SYSGEN_NWIFI_AP), Wireless LAN
STA (SYSGEN_ETH_80211) and the RTL8180 Native Wi-Fi STA driver to the
image.
Upon booting the card seems to get correctly recognized. At least the
Zero Configuration Wizard for RTL8081_NWIFI pops up and I can enter
the necessary settings such as SSID and WEP key. However, the card
refuses to associate with the access point. When I press Connect it
says Scanning..., Associating with Network .., Failed to associate
with Network. I have tried with and without encryption but I have not
yet found settings that will allow the card to associate with my
access point.
Do I need some additional driver or am I going down a blind alley?
Needless to say that under WinXP the card has no problems associating
with the access point, i.e. my infrastructure is not at fault.

Thanks in advance,
August Ludviksson

K
Wed Jan 12 04:18:30 CST 2005

Maybe you may try to use some WLAN sniffer like AitoPeek ot EtherReal to
capture the procedure of WLAN Authentication and Association.


"August Ludviksson" <august_ludviksson@hotmail.com>
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> I recently purchased an 802.11b PCMCIA card with a Realtek 8180
> chipset. I used PB 5.0 to build an OS image for a VIA mainboard (using
> VIA's recently published BSP), then added Native Wi-Fi STA
> (SYSGEN_NWIFI_STA), Native Wi-Fi AP (SYSGEN_NWIFI_AP), Wireless LAN
> STA (SYSGEN_ETH_80211) and the RTL8180 Native Wi-Fi STA driver to the
> image.
> Upon booting the card seems to get correctly recognized. At least the
> Zero Configuration Wizard for RTL8081_NWIFI pops up and I can enter
> the necessary settings such as SSID and WEP key. However, the card
> refuses to associate with the access point. When I press Connect it
> says Scanning..., Associating with Network .., Failed to associate
> with Network. I have tried with and without encryption but I have not
> yet found settings that will allow the card to associate with my
> access point.
> Do I need some additional driver or am I going down a blind alley?
> Needless to say that under WinXP the card has no problems associating
> with the access point, i.e. my infrastructure is not at fault.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> August Ludviksson

Dave
Wed Jan 12 10:46:36 CST 2005

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:18:30 +0800, "K. S. Huang"
<ks_huang@AlphaNetworks.com_remove.this> wrote:

>Maybe you may try to use some WLAN sniffer like AitoPeek ot EtherReal to
>capture the procedure of WLAN Authentication and Association.
>
>
I think he means AiroPeek (www.wildpackets.com) and Ethereal
(www.ethereal.com). AiroPeek will show you the raw 802.11 packets.
Ethereal will only show you the packets which get converted to 802.3
(Ethernet) by the device driver. Ethereal is free. Airopeek costs
money.


Dave Heil
Vytek Inc.

august
Wed Jan 12 14:00:02 CST 2005

Thanks for the info but I don't think I'm getting that far. This is
what I see in the debugging console after entering the wireless
parameters (SSID, WEP-key, etc.):

0x8db82a84: ZCF:: NWIFI failed set OID_802_11_SSID.
0x8db2b800: Nwifi Strength = [0]
0x8db2b800: SignalStrength = [-91]
0x8db2b800: Nwifi Strength = [0]
0x8db2b800: SignalStrength = [-91]
0x8db2b800: Nwifi Strength = [0]
0x8db2b800: SignalStrength = [-91]
0x8de88c50: ZCF:: Resetting all networks marked BAD.
0x8de88c50: ZCF:: NWIFI failed set OID_802_11_SSID.
0x8de88c50: ZCF:: Warning! Disable connection to [august] permanently.
0x8de88c50: ZCF:: NWIFI failed set OID_802_11_SSID.

I'm not sure what this means but to me it indicates that the driver
already has a problem so the association of the card with the access
point is bound to fail. The question is whether I have all the
components in my OS image that I need in order to get a WiFi card with
an RTL8081 chipset to work.

Vicky
Tue Jan 18 06:33:03 CST 2005

Hi
I am also facing a similar problem. I have a USB adapter which I am
connecting on a CEPC.
On connecting the adapter, I can see the list of the networks and I can
modify encryption, authentication etc for all the networks. After that I see
the adapter associating with the network and give an indication "Failed to
associate". But if I click on "Connect" button, it shows "Scanning..." with
signal strength but never comes out of it.
From the debug logs, I notice that miniport's *Reset* handler is getting
called at a regular interval. Why does a Reset handler gets called? I can see
all the communication on the USB port happening successfully.
I do not have an IP address assigned to the adapter. My CEPC has a
static IP address.

Regards

Vicky

"August Ludviksson" wrote:

> I recently purchased an 802.11b PCMCIA card with a Realtek 8180
> chipset. I used PB 5.0 to build an OS image for a VIA mainboard (using
> VIA's recently published BSP), then added Native Wi-Fi STA
> (SYSGEN_NWIFI_STA), Native Wi-Fi AP (SYSGEN_NWIFI_AP), Wireless LAN
> STA (SYSGEN_ETH_80211) and the RTL8180 Native Wi-Fi STA driver to the
> image.
> Upon booting the card seems to get correctly recognized. At least the
> Zero Configuration Wizard for RTL8081_NWIFI pops up and I can enter
> the necessary settings such as SSID and WEP key. However, the card
> refuses to associate with the access point. When I press Connect it
> says Scanning..., Associating with Network .., Failed to associate
> with Network. I have tried with and without encryption but I have not
> yet found settings that will allow the card to associate with my
> access point.
> Do I need some additional driver or am I going down a blind alley?
> Needless to say that under WinXP the card has no problems associating
> with the access point, i.e. my infrastructure is not at fault.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> August Ludviksson
>