HP Wireless Problems [Solved]

[absolofdoom]

Alas, I got an HP m9040n PC, and I'm having problems with its wireless card.
Knetworkmanager recognizes it as a ralink card, but when it tries to use it, the indicator light for the wireless card goes off on the computer, and it doesn't work.
I tried quitting knetwork manager and configuring it in the command line, but it won't work. If I do "ifconfig wlan0 down", then the light comes back on, and if I do "ifconfig wlan0 up", then the light goes back off. Net-setup and iwconfig won't do any good. I have a feeling that it's using the wrong driver. I would try using ndiswrapper, but I can't find any xp drivers for the card. Here is the page on hp for the computer: I can't find anything but vista drivers for the card.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3550550&

[Thev00d00]

what model of ralink?

[absolofdoom]

I'm not sure. However the driver that sabayon tries to use for it is rt73usb, and the driver that vista (ewww...) uses for it is called net73, so I'm guessing it's something to do with 73. I found out after a lot of digging that the manufacturer of the wireless card (which is actually a usb wireless adapter that is plugged into an internal usb port) is called Lite-On. Annoyingly, though, I can't find out anything about the wireless adapter on their website. I really wish HP would be more open with their specs, it really ticks me off that I have to go through all this crap, and I still don't even know what the freakin' chipset of the adapter is!

If there's any additional info I can give, I will, please just ask. (and I'm not afraid of the command-line in the slightest)

Thanks
-absolofdoom

[Thev00d00]

can u post a lsusb?

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# lsusb

[absolofdoom]

This will be fun to type...

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Bus 008 Device 002:  ID 03f0:0f0c Hewlett-Packard
Bus 008 Device 001:  ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001:  ID 0000:0000
Bus 007 Device 001:  ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001:  ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001:  ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001:  ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001:  ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 005:  ID 147a:e018 Formosa Industrial Computing, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 006:  ID 0bda:0151 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002:  ID 15a9:0004
Bus 002 Device 003:  ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Bus 002 Device 001:  ID 0000:0000


whew...
There it is, in all its glory. My fingers hurt... Next time I'll just put it in a text file and transfer it with a flash drive...
Should of thought of that sooner...oh well.
Thanks

[Thev00d00]

You typed that? ouch! haha

Well the only info I can find on that device is that its a storage driver :/ haha (here clicky)

Ill keep looking

[absolofdoom]

Thanks, you have no idea how sick I am of vista. Gotta get internet working in sabayon. I did an lspci first, and didn't see the wireless card, after I found out it was actually a usb adapter, I forgot to do an lsusb... Thanks for the idea! I disappoint myself sometimes... *heads to google for some searching*
Thanks again!
p.s. Yeah, I typed that...

[absolofdoom]

I have no FREAKIN' idea how, but the internet just WORKED ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I turned it on to do the lsusb, and I left it on just in case I needed it again... maybe the lsusb probed it and made it work, or maybe the extra time it was on did something. Anyhow, knetworkmanager all of a sudden saw my wireless network and connected.
I don't know if it will work next time I turn it on though...but it did work!
I need to further investigate, but first I'm gonna install everything I want on it while it has internet.
Thanks again for your help! I'll report back to say if I've figured it out later.
-absolofdoom
EDIT: After a while, it bumped me off the internet, and when I tried to reconnect, it wouldn't work. I rebooted it twice, and tried using lsusb, but nothin' worked. So I'm back to square one. Only now, I'm very confused, and I don't know what to try next. If it worked once, without me even doing anything, then it should continue working. Frankly, I have no idea what to do.

[Thev00d00]

Part 1
Hmmm ok "Realtek" I should read more carefully, I was still thinking Ralink (from your first post )

Ok found this clicky
Im assuming thats the chipset, there is driver for the 2.6 kernel (that page also has some nice looking XP drivers if you do resort to trying NDISWrapper

Part 2
If it worked maybe try iwconfig again?
Exit Knetworkmanager
as root

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/etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
iwconfig wlan0 essid <Essishere>
iwconfig wlan0 key restricted
iwconfig wlan0 key <WEP key here>
dhclient

Try that, that should work, assuming your using plain ol' WEP

[absolofdoom]

I tried the iwconfig route, I got this:

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absols-sabayon-desktop absol # /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop
 * Stopping NetworkManager ...                                            [ ok ]
absols-sabayon-desktop absol # ifconfig wlan0 up
absols-sabayon-desktop absol # iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
absols-sabayon-desktop absol # iwconfig wlan0 essid colon_network
absols-sabayon-desktop absol # dhclient
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.5-Gentoo-r1
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:c0:a8:f8:bc:0a
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:c0:a8:f8:bc:0a
Listening on LPF/wmaster0/
Sending on   LPF/wmaster0/
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wmaster0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on wmaster0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on wmaster0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
DHCPDISCOVER on wmaster0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wmaster0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
absols-sabayon-desktop absol # dhclient wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.5-Gentoo-r1
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:c0:a8:f8:bc:0a
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:c0:a8:f8:bc:0a
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
absols-sabayon-desktop absol # man dhclient
Formatting page, please wait...
absols-sabayon-desktop absol # iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"colon_network"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2346 B
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


(btw, my wireless network is unprotected, because I live in the country and I only have one neighbor, and I doubt he knows that the internet exists. So wep/wpa would just be a needless hassle for me.)
So, unless, I did something wrong, it won't work by itself. Therefore, I tried the driver route.
Here's the driver's readme:

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RTL8185 Linux Driver v1010.0531.2006 for linux kernel 2.6

  - Support Client mode for either infrastructure or adhoc mode
  - Support WEP and WPAPSK connection

===============================================================================================
< Component >
The driver is composed of several parts:
    (1)source code
   r818x.tar.gz
   stack.tar.gz

    (2)Script ot build the modules
        makedrv

    (3)Script to load/unload modules
        wlan0up
        wlan0down

    (4)Script and configuration for DHCP
   wlan0dhcp
        ifcfg-wlan0

    (5)Supplicant source code
   wpa_supplicant-0.3.8.tar.gz
       
    (6)Example of supplicant configuration file
   wpa1.conf




< Installation >
Running the scripts can finish all operations of building up modules from source code and start the nic:

   (1)Build up the driver from the source code
            ./makedrv

       (2)Load the driver module to kernel and start up nic
          ./wlan0up
           (if "insmod: error inserting 'r8180.ko': -File exists." met,
           ./wlan0rmv
      ./wlan0down
      ./wlan0up
       should be OK.
      )
   (3)Refer to < Set wireless lan MIBs > to set Wireless LAN specific parameters.





< Set wireless lan MIBs >
This driver uses Wireless Extension as an interface allowing you to set
Wireless LAN specific parameters.

Current driver supports "iwlist" to show the device status of nic

        iwlist wlan0 [parameters]
where

        parameter explaination         [parameters]   
        -----------------------        -------------   
        Show available chan and freq   freq / channel 
        Show and Scan BSS and IBSS    scan[ning]         
        Show supported bit-rate         rate / bit[rate]       
        Show Power Management mode      power             

For example:

   iwlist wlan0 channel
   iwlist wlan0 scan
   iwlist wlan0 rate
   iwlist wlan0 power


Driver also supports "iwconfig", manipulate driver private ioctls, to set MIBs.

        iwconfig wlan0 [parameters] [val]
where

        parameter explaination      [parameters]           [val] constraints
        -----------------------     -------------          ------------------
        Connect to AP by address    ap                    [essid]
        Set the essid, join (I)BSS  essid                   [mac_addr]
        Set operation mode          mode                {Managed|Ad-hoc}
        Set keys and security mode  key / enc[ryption]          {N|open|restricted|off}


For example:

   iwconfig wlan0 ap XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
   iwconfig wlan0 essid "ap_name"
   iwconfig wlan0 mode Ad-hoc
   iwconfig wlan0 mode essid "name" mode Ad-hoc
   iwconfig wlan0 key 0123456789 [2] open
   iwconfig wlan0 key off
   iwconfig wlan0 key restricted [3] 0123456789

< Getting IP address >
After start up the nic, the network needs to obtain an IP address before transmit/receive data.
This can be done by setting the static IP via "ifconfig wlan0 IP_ADDRESS" command, or using DHCP.

If using DHCP, setting steps is as below:
   
   (1)connect to an AP via "iwconfig" settings
      iwconfig wlan0 essid [name]   or
      iwconfig wlan0 ap XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

   (2)run the script which run the dhclient
      ./wlan0dhcp
           or
      dhcpcd wlan0
                 (Some network admins require that you use the
                 hostname and domainname provided by the DHCP server.
                 In that case, use
      dhcpcd -HD wlan0)



< WPAPSK >
WPA_SUPPLICANT help the network to communicate under the protection of WPAPSK mechanism
   
   (1)Unpack source code of WPA supplicant:
      tar -zxvf wpa_supplicant-0.4.9.tar.gz
      cd wpa_supplicant-0.4.9
   
   (2)Create .config file:
      cp defconfig .config
      
   (3)Edit .config file, uncomment the following line:
      #CONFIG_DRIVER_IPW=y.
      
   (4)Build WPA supplicant:
      make
       
   If make error for lack of <include/md5.h>, install the openssl lib:
    1. Install the openssl lib from corresponding installation disc:
       Fedora Core 2/3/4/5(openssl-0.9.71x-xx), Mandrake10.2/Mandriva10.2(openssl-0.9.7x-xmdk),
       Debian 3.1(libssl-dev), Suse 9.3/10.0/10.1(openssl_devl), Gentoo(dev-libs/openssl), etc.
    2. Download the openssl open source package from http://www.openssl.org, build and install it.
   
   (5)Edit wpa_supplicant.conf to set up SSID and its passphrase.
   For example, the following setting in "wpa1.conf" means SSID to join is "BufAG54_Ch6"
   and its passphrase is "87654321".

      network={
         ssid="BufAG54_Ch6"
         proto=WPA
         key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
         pairwise=CCMP TKIP
         group=CCMP TKIP WEP104 WEP40
         psk="87654321"
         priority=2
      }

   (6)Execute WPA supplicant (Assume 8185 and related modules had been loaded):
      ./wpa_supplicant -D ipw -c wpa1.conf -i wlan0 &



I tried the first driver on that page, and I couldn't get it to compile:

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absols-sabayon-desktop rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006 # ./makedrv
ieee80211/
ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c
ieee80211/Modules.symvers
ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac_wx.c
ieee80211/LICENSE
ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c
ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c
ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.h
ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_ccmp.c
ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
ieee80211/Makefile
ieee80211/.tmp_versions/
ieee80211/.tmp_versions/ieee80211_crypt-rtl.mod
ieee80211/.tmp_versions/ieee80211_crypt_wep-rtl.mod
ieee80211/.tmp_versions/ieee80211_crypt_tkip-rtl.mod
ieee80211/.tmp_versions/ieee80211_crypt_ccmp-rtl.mod
ieee80211/.tmp_versions/ieee80211-rtl.mod
ieee80211/ieee80211.h
ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
ieee80211/README
ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.c
ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c
ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.c
rtl818x-0.1/
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_wx.h
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_wx.c
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_rtl8225.h
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_rtl8255.h
rtl818x-0.1/AUTHORS
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_max2820.c
rtl818x-0.1/r8180.h
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_max2820.h
rtl818x-0.1/tags
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_sa2400.h
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_93cx6.c
rtl818x-0.1/ieee80211.h
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_gct.c
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_gct.h
rtl818x-0.1/.r8180_core.o.d
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_rtl8225.c.old
rtl818x-0.1/Modules.symvers
rtl818x-0.1/CHANGES
rtl818x-0.1/LICENSE
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_93cx6.h
rtl818x-0.1/README.master
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_hw.h
rtl818x-0.1/README
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_pm.c
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_sa2400.c
rtl818x-0.1/COPYING
rtl818x-0.1/README.adhoc
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_rtl8225.c
rtl818x-0.1/.tmp_versions/
rtl818x-0.1/.tmp_versions/r8180.mod
rtl818x-0.1/INSTALL
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_rtl8255.c
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.c
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_pm.h
rtl818x-0.1/Makefile
rtl818x-0.1/ieee80211_crypt.h
rm -f *.mod.c *.mod *.o .*.cmd *.ko
rm -rf /home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/tmp
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.22-sabayon/build M=/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211 CC=gcc modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.22-sabayon'
  CC [M]  /home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.o
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c: In function ‘ieee80211_softmac_scan_wq’:
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:391: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:412: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘queue_delayed_work’ from incompatible pointer type
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c: In function ‘ieee80211_softmac_stop_scan’:
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:486: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘cancel_delayed_work’ from incompatible pointer type
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c: In function ‘ieee80211_associate_abort’:
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:885: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘queue_delayed_work’ from incompatible pointer type
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:1359:4: warning: #warning CHECK_LOCK_HERE
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:1399:2: warning: #warning CHECK_LOCK_HERE
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c: In function ‘ieee80211_rx_frame_softmac’:
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:1470: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c: In function ‘ieee80211_stop_protocol’:
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:2059: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘cancel_delayed_work’ from incompatible pointer type
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:2167:78: error: macro "INIT_WORK" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c: In function ‘ieee80211_softmac_init’:
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:2167: error: ‘INIT_WORK’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:2167: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:2167: error: for each function it appears in.)
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:2168:88: error: macro "INIT_WORK" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:2169:94: error: macro "INIT_WORK" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:2170:96: error: macro "INIT_WORK" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:2171:82: error: macro "INIT_WORK" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:2172:82: error: macro "INIT_WORK" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c: In function ‘ieee80211_softmac_free’:
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:2191: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘cancel_delayed_work’ from incompatible pointer type
make[2]: *** [/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/ieee80211] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.22-sabayon'
make: *** [modules] Error 2
rm -f *.mod.c *.mod *.o .*.cmd *.ko
rm -rf /home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/tmp
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.22-sabayon/build M=/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1 CC=gcc modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.22-sabayon'
  CC [M]  /home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.o
In file included from /home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.c:61:
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180.h:29:26: error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.c: In function ‘rtl8180_rx’:
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.c:2080: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘rdtsc’
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.c:2953:67: error: macro "INIT_WORK" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.c: In function ‘rtl8180_init’:
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.c:2953: error: ‘INIT_WORK’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.c:2953: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.c:2953: error: for each function it appears in.)
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.c:3276: warning: ‘deprecated_irq_flag’ is deprecated (declared at include/linux/interrupt.h:66)
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.c:3276: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘request_irq’ from incompatible pointer type
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.c: In function ‘rtl8180_pci_probe’:
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.c:4031: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘get_wireless_stats’
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.c: In function ‘rtl8180_pci_module_init’:
/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.c:4156: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘pci_module_init’
make[2]: *** [/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/absol/rtl8185_linux_26.1010.0531.2006/rtl818x-0.1] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.22-sabayon'
make: *** [modules] Error 2


If I'm doing something wrong, I'm sorry, I was lucky enough that my old desktop and my laptop both used out-of-the-box supported wireless cards. Now, I've gotta learn how to get one workin the hard way. I've read a lot of documentation, but sometimes I need some help putting it all together.
Thanks again for helping me, I don't know what I'd do without people like you.