[ILUG] wifi 11mbps pcmcia card for linux

[Sean O'Donnell]

This last I heard of it was this mail :
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Date: Fri Jan 23 2004 - 10:58:00 EST

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Since I'm getting a lot of queries about the status of my rtl8180 driver,
I figured I'd post an update. It's not currently in a usable state; I'm
working on 802.11 manage frames, to make the card able to
associate w/ an AP. I haven't been able to figure out if the hardware has
any sort of support for wrapping frames (management or otherwise) with
PLCP and MAC headers, and/or whether there's a special tx register/ring
for sending out management frames. As there's no common code for
constructing management frames (each wireless driver seems to implement
it), I'm currently working on constructing a probe packet (w/ PLCP and
MAC headers added), sending it out through the normal tx ring, and hoping
my AP is kind enough to respond. If that works, I'll at least know that
my rx/tx handling code is correct; right now, I don't think I can test it
w/out associating.

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There does seem to be some code here

http://mirrors.sourcecontrol.net/dilingerATvoxel.net--2004/rtl8180/rtl8180--
mainline/rtl8180--mainline--2.6/

replace the AT in dilingerATvoxel.net with an @ , I sure the guy would not
appreciate his mail address being
harvested.

Sean





-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Farrell [mailto:robin at edgesol.net]
Sent: 18 March 2004 13:12
To: Sean O'Donnell
Subject: Re: [ILUG] wifi 11mbps pcmcia card for linux


Yeah, thats the one, know where i can get more info on the driver under
development?
Cheers,
Robin.


Quoting Sean O'Donnell (sodonnell at 3q-solutions.com):
> Sounds familiar , was it realtek 8180 based?? If so the chip specs have
been
> released and
> a decent driver is under development, but I dont know when it will see the
> light of day.
>
> Sean
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie]On Behalf Of
> Robin Farrell
> Sent: 17 March 2004 14:23
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: [ILUG] wifi 11mbps pcmcia card for linux
>
>
> Can someone recommend a wireless pcmcia card for linux please, one which
> will run under 2.6.4 preferably.  Bought one off ebay but it uses dodgy
> precompiled drivers and has a useless chipset.
> Cheers,
> Robin.
>
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