RTL8180+RTL818x support

[Tim Gardner]

Stefan Bader wrote:
> There seem to be several reports complaining about those rtl drivers:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/156050
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24/+bug/184788
> 
> Possibly there are more. So far it seems there are rtl8187 and rtl8150
> drivers in the kernel (how well those work I do not know). There does
> not seem to be a driver for rtl8180.
> 
> What I got from some links in reports is the svn base from
> http://rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net
> + a compat patch (in the lbm-addon tar)
> + a patch to cleanly build outside (export renames and a bit of cleanup)
> 
> All at zinc.ubuntu.com:smb~/4review
> 
> Probably the best way to go would be to create another ppa package that
> includes the external driver and gather reports. Thoughts?
> 
> Stefan
> 

That seems like a reasonable approach.

Since not everyone subscribed to this list has an account on zinc,
perhaps you could post your review notes at http://people.ubuntu.com/~smb

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at ubuntu.com