Fedora 19 and ALFA AWUS036H

hooplah

Hi folks,

I'm trying to get my ALFA AWUS036H external wifi adaptor working on my laptop which runs Fedora 19.

When I plug it in to the laptop nothing happens so I thought that I didn't have the necessary drivers installed...

Looking around the web I can see that the required driver is the Realtec RTL8187L. I went to the driver download page and tried to compile the driver from there. After I cd into the downloaded directory and try 'make' I get the following error:

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.11.7-200.fc19.x86_64'
  CC [M]  /home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.o
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c:153:22: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘rtl8187_usb_probe’
 static int __devinit rtl8187_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
                      ^
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c:155:23: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘rtl8187_usb_disconnect’
 static void __devexit rtl8187_usb_disconnect(struct usb_interface *intf);
                       ^
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c:168:12: error: ‘rtl8187_usb_probe’ undeclared here (not in a function)
  .probe  = rtl8187_usb_probe,           
            ^
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c:169:16: error: ‘rtl8187_usb_disconnect’ undeclared here (not in a function)
  .disconnect = rtl8187_usb_disconnect,   
                ^
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c: In function ‘rtl8180_proc_module_init’:
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c:427:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘create_proc_entry’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  rtl8180_proc=create_proc_entry(RTL8187_MODULE_NAME, S_IFDIR, init_net.proc_net);
  ^
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c:427:14: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
  rtl8180_proc=create_proc_entry(RTL8187_MODULE_NAME, S_IFDIR, init_net.proc_net);
              ^
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c: In function ‘rtl8180_proc_init_one’:
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c:461:16: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
  priv->dir_dev = create_proc_entry(dev->name, 
                ^
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c:479:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘create_proc_read_entry’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  e = create_proc_read_entry("stats-rx", S_IFREG | S_IRUGO,
  ^
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c:479:4: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
  e = create_proc_read_entry("stats-rx", S_IFREG | S_IRUGO,
    ^
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c:489:4: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
  e = create_proc_read_entry("stats-tx", S_IFREG | S_IRUGO,
    ^
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c:518:4: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
  e = create_proc_read_entry("registers", S_IFREG | S_IRUGO,
    ^
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c: In function ‘rtl8180_tx’:
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c:1382:12: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
  u8 seg = ((u32)txbuf % 4);
            ^
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c: In function ‘rtl8187_usb_initendpoints’:
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c:1588:14: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
   seg_size = (u32)ptrcontext->transfer_buffer % 4;
              ^
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c: At top level:
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c:3762:22: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘rtl8187_usb_probe’
 static int __devinit rtl8187_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
                      ^
/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.c:3862:23: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘rtl8187_usb_disconnect’
 static void __devexit rtl8187_usb_disconnect(struct usb_interface *intf)
                       ^
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187/r8187_core.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/username/Downloads/rtl8187L_linux_1041.0209.2012/rtl8187] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.11.7-200.fc19.x86_64'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I had a look around for similiar errors and found that someone in the Ubuntu forums was having a similiar issue:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/288280/how-to-install-the-new-version-of-the-rtl8187-driver-on-ubuntu-13-04
but his fix doesn't help me.

I figure there must be plenty of people who have this adaptor working with Fedora so maybe I am missing something pretty basic. I know the adaptor works with Kalilinux which is quite recent. Does anyone have any advice to offer on what I should try next?

hooplah

well it's working now but to be honest I'm not sure what got it going. If anyone comes accross this thread I created teh rc.local section don in the ubuntu forums thread I posted previously.

It now works but wlan0 has been renamed to the quite unfriendly wlp0s29u

h57xiucj2z946q

hooplah wrote: »

It now works but wlan0 has been renamed to the quite unfriendly wlp0s29u

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

hooplah

Oh, that's helpful. Thanks!