Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:18:36 -0500 From: "Eric Wenger" <eric_wenger@yahoo.com> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Project Evil: Success with Realtek 8180 (RTL8180) Message-ID: <93E8213CD5295045B4017C8EB52A5864BD2ADB@DURMX1.cs.myharris.net>
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I have a $20 Trendware TEW-228PI with a Realtek 8180 802.11b chipset on board. I have successfully installed the device driver from www.realtek.com.tw (XP/version 166) using if_ndis. To do this I = upgraded my 5.2.1-STABLE to 5.0-CURRENT, which I understand isn't required, and then built the driver following Bill Paul's directions. I had never = installed a wireless driver under FreeBSD before so the only confusing item was that = the device would come up a few seconds after ifconfig inet x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x ssid xxx. I also should point out that you can't configure two interfaces on the same subnet under FreeBSD so if you are hard wired to = a wireless router you need to take care with addressing. Thanks for the great work on Project Evil! Eric
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