Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:29:31 -0300
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: tuxrocks@cox.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhollis@davehollis.com
Subject: Re: open source realtek driver for 8180
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In my experience the realtek binary driver is crap - it brings up the card 
and transfers data correctly - but stops communication after some period of time, 
sometimes 10 minutes, sometimes 1 hour.

It oopses on card removal, doenst handle anything other than normal 
operation for more than 1 hour.

On RH's 2.4.20-8, all of that.

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 07:54:18PM -0500, tuxrocks@cox.net wrote:
> The realtek drivers have worked for me, but only (as you said) for 2.4.  They 
> also don't support monitor mode, which I would like to use.
> I had similar experiences with the sourceforge projects mentioned.  The 
> rtl8180+sa2400 bailed with numerous warnings.  The project you mention might 
> be the other one on sourceforge, rtl-ddp.  Things seemed to be moving, but 
> then stalled.  It compiles and insmods but doesn't have the wireless 
> extensions supported yet.  I'm sure everyone involved in the projects is 
> busy, but I'm just trying to see if going out and buying a 20 or 30 dollar 
> card that is supported would be my best bet.
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