Bad news indeed...as far as I know, the RTl8180 has no linux
driver...they do supply an closed source binary with an open source
wrapper to shoe-horn it into the kernel.  The driver is a piece of crap,
and i wouldn't bother with it if i were you. 

On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 19:10, Anthony Boynes wrote:
> Bad news.  This appears to be version 3 of the
> F5D6020,   which is the Realtek 8180 chipset.
> 
> Anthony
> 
> --- Liberty Young <liberty@embeddedx86.com> wrote:
> > What's the chipset? I've noticed that many wifi card
> > manufacturers say
> > they have "linux drivers" but only supply
> > precompiled drivers for Redhat
> > Version X.xx, or if they do supply source, it is a
> > poor wrapper for
> > their closed source binary. One chipset that comes
> > to mind is the
> > RealTek 8180L
> > 
> > On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 12:16, Anthony Boynes wrote:
> > > Fry's Electronics has a Belkin 802.11b card
> > (F5D6020)
> > > in today's ad.  $40 with a $40 rebate.  Looks like
> > it
> > > is decently supported in linux.  I already picked
> > one
> > > up, and hope to try it out soon.
> > > 
> > > Just thought others might be interested......
> > > 
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