Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265772AbUAKFrL (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:47:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265775AbUAKFrK (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:47:10 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:40896 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265772AbUAKFrH (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:47:07 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andres Salomon Subject: Re: rtl8180l status ? Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:47:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200401102054.53387.geekassault@planetinternet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity. (Debian GNU/Linux)) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1787 Lines: 36 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/