From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262777AbTJPI73 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 04:59:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262781AbTJPI73 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 04:59:29 -0400 Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr ([134.157.0.129]:33542 "EHLO shiva.jussieu.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262777AbTJPI72 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 04:59:28 -0400 From: Roberto Di Cosmo MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16270.23843.175822.920013@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:56:03 +0200 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Full specifications available for RealTek 8180 wireless chipset Cc: fedor@karpelevitch.net X-Mailer: VM 7.04 under 21.4 (patch 8) "Honest Recruiter" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: Roberto Di Cosmo X-Antivirus: scanned by sophie at shiva.jussieu.fr Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Having experienced a large set of delusions using the closed source drivers for the RealTek 8180 wireless chipset available on RealTek web site on a stock kernel 2.4.20, that do confirm the posting of fedor@karpelevitch.net on September 11 2003 about kernel freeze with stock 2.4.22, I politely complained with RealTek, suggesting they open the code or release the chipset specifications to the community. I received today the full chipset specifications, that I uploaded to http://www.dicosmo.org/RTL8180spec_1_3.pdf I hope this may help, if somebody is willing to undertake writing a real, full fledged, Linux-quality driver for this chipset. Sorry for not being able to do this myself. Yours --Roberto Di Cosmo P.S.: I apologize for posting without being subscribed to the list.