rtl8187

[davfel]

hello'
I am wondering if any of the resident guru's have an idea on this one. After reinstall fedora core 6 2.6.18.2798. I reinstalled the realtek drivers by recompiling and bringing up the lan. After the device is up and running I copied the .ko files into the /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/drivers/net as I had done previously and it worked (that is system recognized and brought them up at boot time), when i do a /sbin/modprobe r8187 I get these errors:

WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211_crypt (/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko): Invalid module format

and like I said this all had worked before, also, i am not able to bring the network back up until I remove these files from the /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/drivers/net/ directory, with the wlan0up file that came with the drivers.

the code of wlan0up is this :


cd ieee80211/
insmod ieee80211_crypt-rtl.ko
insmod ieee80211_crypt_wep-rtl.ko
insmod ieee80211_crypt_tkip-rtl.ko
insmod ieee80211_crypt_ccmp-rtl.ko
insmod ieee80211-rtl.ko

cd ../beta-8187/
insmod r8187.ko

cd ../

ifconfig wlan0 up
any info on this would be greatly appreciated
thanks
dave

[davfel]

hi,
Also, it gives me an invalid symbol in each of the modules when it tries to insert the modules after running the ./wlan0up (before i remove the .ko files from the /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/drivers/net directory.
After removing the the files and rebooting ./wlan0up works fine.....
hmmmm
again thanks for any help
dave

[Iron_Mike]

Take a look at this link......

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Wireless_r8187&printable=yes

[davfel]

yes ,
thank you but i can do that too. I was trying to let the system bring it up with system-config-network....had this working at one time i just am not understanding why the modules won't insert properly now after the copy into the the /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/drivers/net directory.
thanks
dave