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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I was going to try the card in Win98 but the driver is 16MB download (!) 
for Linksys (Realtek's was 102K).

I went looking for precompiled ndiswrapper (module?) for kernel 2.4.31 and 
could not find it at linuxpackages.net.  Does Slackware 10.2 have it?  I 
don't even know where to look - under modules?

Debian/Ubuntu Breezy Badger and Hoary have ndiswrapper support but there 
is some complicated way of installing them.  Maybe the live CD can handle 
this.

DSL 2.2 has kernel 2.4.31 and ndiswrapper support.  If we can get that to 
work, I will copy over the module or whatever it is to BL, maybe also 
their kernel for use with it if David's won't do it.  We can download DSL 
to the library computer and transfer to the 64MB memory stick.

> I am working on the wireless ethernet laptop card - WPC11 V.4.
> Linksys says it is only supported for Windows.
> It has a Realtek RTL8180 chip but the Realtek links for three linux source
> code packages (and all the Windows packages) seem to be unavailable
> (broken?).  They specified which gcc you needed for each linux package:
> 2.4.18 needs gcc 2.96, 2.4.20 2.3.3 (or 2.3.2?) - I presume 2.4.31 with
> whatever SW91 came with should also work.
>
> I found open source (alpha and pre-alpha) code for this chip (96K package)
> but it needs 2.4 or 2.6 kernel according to the Makefile and wants a
> /lib/modules/2.4.31/build/.config file.
>
> You are just supposed to type 'make' from the source code directory where
> the Makefile is, but it looks for the above elsewhere.
>
> Do I need to put the full kernel source code into /build or just the
> kernel headers, to make this separate kernel module for the card?
> Was I supposed to put kernel source code under /build too?  (For 2.2.16 I
> put it into /kernelcompile and it worked fine there).
>
> Do I need to make the .config file somehow, or use the one from building
> the kernel itself?
>
> I will post the module if it works with 2.4.31, as it is generic to
> several makers' cards that use the same chip, all 'recent' (since 2001).
>
> Sindi