hey, I have 10, and I have the RTL8180.

im in the same boat he is. guide me through please.

(btw, i have the driver CD along with a working windows partition, i dunno why thats needed. linux is different)

The instructions on this page pertain to the newer version of ndiswrapper.
please disregard these instructions and see the ones here. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=14972.


You will need to use ndiswrapper.

the ndiswrapper website is located at ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net

Fortunately for you, it is installed with Mandrake so that will make life easier.

Lets start by getting the correct driver for the chipset.
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/supported_chipsets.html

Hit the link for the realtek of yours and then get the WINDOWS XP driver. Yes, the windows XP driver.

Download it to a new directory called "drivers" in your home and then extract it.

Once it is there, open a command line/console/konsole type in 'su' and hit enter
It will ask for a password and you need to put your root password in then hit enter.

Once you have done that


Replace myname with your username and INFFILE.INF with the name of the file in the directory drivers, which has .INF on the end of its name.

Then run


This will tell you if it has been installed correctly and should say:
Installed ndis drivers:
net8180

or

Installed ndis drivers:
net8180 present

Or something along those lines, if it comes up with and error, please post it.

Next run


And finally run these two commands


Then configure it through Mandrake Control Centre, if you have any problems, post.

Further information can be found here: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*che...wrapper/INSTALL

In Mandrake 10, ndiswrapper is included as a module in the kernel; but you have to install the tools before you can use the commands iphitus listed.

In a console, su to root and type

That should install a file from your cd's that includes the tools needed. If not, head over to easyurpmi and add a Main source. It is there for sure.