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On 6/16/23 05:20, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> Note MAINTAINERS marks drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8180 as
> orphaned but drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8187 as maintained.

Driver rtl8187 is certainly maintained, not that it gets many bug reports. 
Devices that support 802.11g are not used very often, but at least once a year I 
use my device to get online to retrieve the drivers for a fancier wifi card that 
does not have a driver in Linux or Windows. Drivers for the USB-based 8187A and 
8187B have been in Linux since version 2.6.38 (December 2010), and also in 
Windows 7, if not in older versions.

The driver for rtl8180 is not very important, and could be removed as the card 
uses PCI, not PCIe, slots. I do not have such a device, nor do I have any 
hardware old enough to support it, even though I do have some stuff that tends 
to match my age. :)

Larry