[driverloader] Realtek Instability problem

Joonas Timo Taavetti Kekoni jkekoni at cc.hut.fi
Fri Apr 2 20:56:47 EST 2004


I have Realtek 8180L mini Pci wlan card.

I am running linux 2.4.25 and I compiled driverloader myself.

Driverloader worked fine after some trying, but the computer
crashes within a couple of seconds and 15 minutes when I start
doing some web browsing by HTTP trough it.

Computer cashes and flshes CAPS lock and
Scroll lock leds, num lock led being off.

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I also have a NAT firewall and use the wlan card in ad hoc mode, since
windows driver does not support access point.

I have tried also the RealTek Binary driver, but it did not work.

I downloaded newest XP drivers from realtek web site.

Is there a problem with shared interrups with driverloader?


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PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev
3).
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd7ffffff].
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
    PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev
3).
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=136.
  Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
    ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 2).
  Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
    IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1).
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.
      I/O at 0xf000 [0xf00f].
  Bus  0, device   7, function  2:
    USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 1).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.
      I/O at 0xc000 [0xc01f].
  Bus  0, device   7, function  3:
    Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 2).
      IRQ 9.
  Bus  0, device  11, function  0:
    SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7861 (rev 1).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=4.
      I/O at 0xc400 [0xc4ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdf000000 [0xdf000fff].
  Bus  0, device  13, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140
[FasterNet]
 (rev 34).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=20.Max Lat=40.
      I/O at 0xc800 [0xc87f].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdf001000 [0xdf00107f].
  Bus  0, device  15, function  0:
    Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 6).
      IRQ 9.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128.
      I/O at 0xcc00 [0xcc3f].
===========================================================================
  Bus  0, device  17, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: PCI device 10ec:8180 (Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.)
(rev 32).
      IRQ 9.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
      I/O at 0xd000 [0xd0ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdf002000 [0xdf0020ff].
===========================================================================
  Bus  0, device  19, function  0:
    Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc.
HPT366/368/370/3
70A/372 (rev 3).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  Latency=120.  Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8.
      I/O at 0xd400 [0xd407].
      I/O at 0xd800 [0xd803].
      I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc07].
      I/O at 0xe000 [0xe003].
      I/O at 0xe400 [0xe4ff].
  Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 4).
      IRQ 9.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=32.
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdc000000 [0xddffffff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000 [0xd8003fff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd9000000 [0xd97fffff].

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( I have 4 hard disks and one DVD rom, scsi is needed by the scanner,
so no devices are put in just for the fun of it. )


[jkekoni at ua58d96 jkekoni]$ more /proc/interrupts
           CPU0
  0:    9834819          XT-PIC  timer
  1:      46434          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  9:      60535          XT-PIC  es1371
	(driverloader too here as well as display adapter)
 10:     282139          XT-PIC  ide2, eth0
 11:       2213          XT-PIC  aic7xxx, usb-uhci
 12:     840131          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
 14:      27831          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:         19          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
ERR:          0

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My windoes is more or less broken so I cannot test if there
is a problem with the card.


Is there some other kernel version or driver version to try?
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/sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid aaa rate 11m mode Ad-Hoc channel 11 nick halko
/sbin/ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up




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