Bug 115268 - Wifi pc card detected but YaST thinks it is wired ethernet
Summary: Wifi pc card detected but YaST thinks it is wired ethernet
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Network (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: i586 SUSE Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Steffen Winterfeldt
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Reported: 2005-09-05 08:53 UTC by Vince Negri
Modified: 2005-10-12 08:51 UTC (History)
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Description Vince Negri 2005-09-05 08:53:51 UTC 
Ran installation on Beta 4 with an RTL8180 chipset PCMCIA wifi card plugged into
the laptop.

YaST correctly identified the card chipset and loaded the right module -
however, the card was classed as "Ethernet" and not "Wireless". Therefore the
screen for entering ESSID was not available. 

By clicking the drop-down box and changing the card type to "Wireless", I was
able to configure the ESSID and get online.

I later ejected the card, and inserted a different one (Belkin) also using the
RTL8180 chipset. The card was correctly detected as a Belkin Wireless card, but
again the YaST screen initially had it set to "Ethernet" instead of "Wireless".

I am unsure if this problem is confined to RTL8180 chipset cards, as I haven't
got another PCMCIA card to test, but I shall try to borrow one.
Comment 1 Joachim Gleissner 2005-09-05 09:36:14 UTC 
hwinfo doesn't know about rtl8180 up to beta4. Should be fixed in rc1.
Comment 2 Vince Negri 2005-10-09 19:01:26 UTC 
Unfortunately did not get to retest until 10.0 final. 
Installed with the same generic (not belkin) RTL8180 chipset PCMCIA card in 
the laptop throughout the install. 
 
Same behaviour as before - Yast reported the card as "ethernet" and not 
"wireless." had to manually change the card type in order to access the ESSID 
settings. 
 
Relevant lspci info for card is: 
 
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L 802.11b 
MAC (rev 20) 
        Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L 802.11b MAC 
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 
        I/O ports at 2000 [size=256] 
        Memory at 0a000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] 
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 
 
Once the card type wart has been fixed, card works excellently!
Comment 3 Martin Vidner 2005-10-11 13:28:24 UTC 
Ugh, I've meant to reassign, hwinfo has to report the correct hardware type to 
yast.
Comment 4 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-10-11 13:31:45 UTC 
Joe?
Comment 5 Joachim Gleissner 2005-10-11 16:42:17 UTC 
Indeed, 'rtl8180' is not in the wlan module list of hwinfo. I could swear I've  
added it within a hwinfo patch regarding WLAN detection. Maybe it didn't apply  
cleanly and got lost or something. Steffen, could you add it? Btw, the module  
file name is rtl8180.ko, but the kernel name is r8180, so I'm not sure which  
name is the right one to add.
Comment 6 Vince Negri 2005-10-12 07:38:59 UTC 
btw Additional piece of info, just in case you aren't aware: the RTL8180 chipset
is used in both PCMCIA cards and some PCI cards. I do have an RTL8180-based PCI
card for future testing on desktops.
Comment 7 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-10-12 08:25:13 UTC 
You mean r8180.ko?
Comment 8 Joachim Gleissner 2005-10-12 08:51:51 UTC 
Oops, yes, of course. Please ignore comment 5. ;)