Suse 10 And Rtl8180 Linux Version

silkmaze · 02-25-2006, 10:40 PM

I have Suse 10 on my Acer 1355LCi that has the RTL8180 wireless chip. I saw on the Realtek website that they had a linux driver (fedora) for this chip.

Does anyone have any experience with it or has anyone installed that driver instead of the windows with Ndiswrapper?.

Did it work? Does it work better or worse than the windows driver and ndiswrapper? What's the installation like?
Can it be installed on Suse, considering it is actually a Fedora driver?

Thanks for your comments and any help or advice you might have.

Freezy · 02-27-2006, 01:01 AM

Short answer : It's a shitty driver for a shitty chipset thats shitty to try to get to work regardless of the method you attempt.
Long answer : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ad.php?t=61832

con · 02-27-2006, 02:31 AM

Never had any problems with the driver... except for I had to download the source from cvs.
dont use the dirver from the realtek site, use the opensource one instead... http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/

Freezy · 02-27-2006, 01:12 PM

I suppose it's an issue with my laptop or the card itself, it works if I use it in windows but in linux it only pretends to work. Can't set SSID, can't set AP MAC manually, can't scan. Nearby cards pick it up if it's in ad-hoc mode, but it picks up nothing.

Same issue with ndiswrapper, offical driver, and unoffical driver.