hi,
I recently got my hands on a system with a realtek 8180l-based wireless
network card (billionton miwlrp, [1]). There is a closed source driver from
realtek, however it does not support 2.6 (yet, probably) and seems to be
quite buggy.
Having read a thread [2] about this, in which mr. Jeff Garzik seemed to imply
that he was working with the realtek people to create an open source driver,
I was wondering if anybody could confirm the existance of such an initiative.
If it exists I'd like to offer my help, both towards developping (I'm a
newbie, but I'd be happy to learn :) and/or testing.
thanks in advance
[1] http://sup.nl.packardbell.be/pri/
index.php?PibItemNr=spec_WL_BilliontonMIWLRP
[2] http://groups.google.com/
groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&c2coff=1&threadm=Heux.4nY.7%
40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%
3Dutf-8%26c2coff%3D1%26q%3D8180%2Bgarzik%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch
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Pieter-Augustijn Van Malleghem, aka GeekAssault
I'm not sure if jgarzik is working on a driver or not (he never
responded to an email I sent), but I'm working on one. The main
remaining issues I need to work on are figuring out the tx/rx buffer
management scheme the rtl8180 uses, and getting the wireless stuff
done (this is my first attempt at dealing w/ wireless nics, so associating
w/ an access point and other such things are new to me).
Unfortunately, I really have been short of time lately, so progress on the
driver has been slow.
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 20:56:01 +0100,
Geek Assault wrote:
> hi,
>
> I recently got my hands on a system with a realtek 8180l-based wireless
> network card (billionton miwlrp, [1]). There is a closed source driver from
> realtek, however it does not support 2.6 (yet, probably) and seems to be
> quite buggy.
>
> Having read a thread [2] about this, in which mr. Jeff Garzik seemed to imply
> that he was working with the realtek people to create an open source driver,
> I was wondering if anybody could confirm the existance of such an initiative.
> If it exists I'd like to offer my help, both towards developping (I'm a
> newbie, but I'd be happy to learn :) and/or testing.
>
> thanks in advance
>
> [1] http://sup.nl.packardbell.be/pri/
> index.php?PibItemNr=spec_WL_BilliontonMIWLRP
> [2] http://groups.google.com/
> groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&c2coff=1&threadm=Heux.4nY.7%
> 40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%
> 3Dutf-8%26c2coff%3D1%26q%3D8180%2Bgarzik%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch