Comment 34 for bug 78255

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Stani (stani) wrote :

I am running Feisty Beta with the 2.6.20-13-generic kernel. I wanted to check if it worked and commented out in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist this line:

#blacklist r818x

I have a gericom pcmcia card inserted in the laptop and Ubuntu booted without any problem. The lspci output of my card is:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L 802.11b MAC (rev 20)

The card seems to work. At least it shows a list of available networks:

sudo iwlist wlan0 scan

wlan0 Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:15:0C:58:8D:BE
                    ESSID:"FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7050"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:6
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 22 24 36 48 54
                    Quality:225 Signal level:0 Noise level:33
                    Extra: Last beacon: 1522ms ago
          Cell 02 - Address: 00:12:BF:4E:93:D1
                    ESSID:"WLAN"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:11
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 22 24 36 48 54
                    Quality:225 Signal level:0 Noise level:96
                    Extra: Last beacon: 503ms ago

Unfortunately I can't test as I have no password of this network. Soon I will travel and I was wondering if "Signal level:0" was a limitation of the driver or if something is wrong. Will I be able to use this card to connect to an wireless network?