Subject: Re: open source realtek driver for 8180
From: David Hollis <dhollis@davehollis.com>
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To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:04:33 -0400
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On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 21:29 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 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.

I'm dabbling with the rtl8180-sa2400 code to see if I can make it do
anything.  Right now most of my time is spent making it compile and
remotely legible.  The coding style is quite far from graceful.
Hopefully I can get it to at least transfer some packets and make more
use of the community to get into something of quality.  

I haven't worked with wireless drivers yet so thats a learning
experience but at least there are plenty of examples at this point.

-- 
David Hollis <dhollis@davehollis.com>

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