[CUWiN-Dev] RTL8180L

[David Young]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:13:30PM +0000, John Atkinson wrote:
> I found some Micronet SP906BB in Accra yesterday, the chip on the card
> showed the Realtek RTL8180L chipset. They go for about half the price of the
> D-Link DWLG520, which is ~$100 USD in it's cheapest incarnation here. But
> the D-Link uses the Atheros chipset; that's what I am using right now, and I
> know they work well. I was attracted to it b/c it uses the RP-SMA, just like
> the D-Link, so it's directly compatible with the batch of new antennas I
> received last week, manufacturer customized for the DWLG520's.

RTL8180-based NICs are paired with three different varieties of RF
front-end.  Two of them, my driver supports; the third, it does not.

> I'm willing to test one if you think that it's a good bet and/or the time to
> polish the driver won't be too exorbitant.

It's hard to say how much work it will take.  If you have the RF front-end
that I don't support, it will take me a while to program that support.
Do me a favor: boot a box with the RTL8180 card in it, and send me the
lines the kernel prints out when it finds your RTL8180.  The lines will
start with 'rtw'.  You can extract them from /var/run/dmesg.boot.

Dave

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