rtl8180l status ?

hi,

I recently got my hands on a system with a realtek 8180l-based wireless network card (billionton miwlrp, [1]). There is a closed source driver from realtek, however it does not support 2.6 (yet, probably) and seems to be quite buggy.

Having read a thread [2] about this, in which mr. Jeff Garzik seemed to imply that he was working with the realtek people to create an open source driver, I was wondering if anybody could confirm the existance of such an initiative. If it exists I'd like to offer my help, both towards developping (I'm a newbie, but I'd be happy to learn :) and/or testing.

thanks in advance

[1] http://sup.nl.packardbell.be/pri/
index.php?PibItemNr=spec_WL_BilliontonMIWLRP
[2] http://groups.google.com/
groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&c2coff=1&threadm=Heux.4nY.7% 40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe% 3Dutf-8%26c2coff%3D1%26q%3D8180%2Bgarzik%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch

Pieter-Augustijn Van Malleghem, aka GeekAssault

I'm not sure if jgarzik is working on a driver or not (he never responded to an email I sent), but I'm working on one. The main remaining issues I need to work on are figuring out the tx/rx buffer management scheme the rtl8180 uses, and getting the wireless stuff done (this is my first attempt at dealing w/ wireless nics, so associating w/ an access point and other such things are new to me).

Unfortunately, I really have been short of time lately, so progress on the driver has been slow.