I just read on linuxquestions.org realtek has a source driver for the
8180 chipset and it only requires slight modification depending on which
card you get.
They also said it occasionaly requires a hard reboot when the machines
is put into apm sleep or something. Otherwise it worked well.
nathan
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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