Encountering a strange problem, I have bought a few realtek wireless pci cards that have worked fine in other machines. I have purchased another based on the great compatibility that I have experienced, but now I am wondering if I had purchased a defective card or it is improperly configured.

The card is a Realtek RTL-8185 driver rtl8180, It seems to sometimes find the card in ifconfig -a, yet always sees the card in ceni and WICD. When attempting to connect to a network the attempt at the connection locks up the system, this also happens occasionally when searching for networks. I have let sit for approximately 1/2 a hour to see if it was killing the cpu at 100% but it remained locked up, and not a 100%. Would like to know if there is something I can do before calling the card. I have a working wireless n usb adapter that does the same thing, and ifconfig not showing the interface at times has me doubting it is the card.

P.S. Will be trying one of the other cards, tomorrow when I am able to go and rob parts from my other pc at the other house.

Dave. You forgot the inxi -F readout for the wireless chip. I was not sure if you had Realtek firmware loaded into the kernel so I found


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Not sure if this helps though.

Thanks rokytnji, I will copy over the inxi -f readout with my usb shortly. As it turns out though I thought I had installed the firmware, but I was 1 number out on the model number. :-0 So I will try the proper firmware and post back.
[EDIT] Changed the firmware and then had the ability to search, but no access point would be found even with the router right beside the computer. Did a lspci and seen that the PCI address to my card was a little odd. Changed the PCI slot and everything seems to be working fine with ceni, wicd still locks the system. I am going to try cleaning the terminals later as I am begining to think this is a hardware issue a bit more. Thats probably what I get for piecing together a system from spare parts __{{emoticon}}__ .

look


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ok.