OK, I have some more information for you which might help you zero in on the problem. I have managed to get the DLink card working, but only under the following conditions:
1. The Access Point publishes the SSID. Hidden SSID simply kill the card 'link' light immediately 2. The IP address for the card is configured to be static. DHCP mode works only first time when the laptop is started up. Subsequent to that, if you pull out the wireless card and plug it back in, not matter what you do, the laptop simply fails to acquire a new dynamic IP address. 3. You have to boot up using the generic version of the kernel (2.6.20-15-generic) from the boot menu, or the source code above will not compile (I was booting up using the 2.6.20-15-386 at one point, and had loads of problems looking for the modules related files in the kernel source tree). 4. The rt8180 module is compiled and deployed with the kernel (the source I downloaded from the Sourceforge website was written for a 2.4 kernel. I made the appropriate patches to get it to compile under 2.6 kernel. The source code is attached below). So all in all, it seems support for wireless is broken somewhat (I still could not get the Belkin F5D7570 USB stick to work, even after trying the above). I can live with it for now, but the situation is hardly ideal, specially for folks who expect this stuff to work out of the box, as it did with Edgy Eft 6.10. ** Attachment added: "rtl8180-0.21-kernel2.6.tgz" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7469195/rtl8180-0.21-kernel2.6.tgz -- DWL-610 network card no longer recognized under Feisty on Thinkpad X30 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109399 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
