Full specifications available for RealTek 8180 wireless chipset

Full specifications available for RealTek 8180 wireless chipset

[Roberto Di Cosmo]

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.

Re: Full specifications available for RealTek 8180 wireless chipset

[Jeff Garzik]

Roberto Di Cosmo wrote:
> 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.


Having announced this to thousands of people -- including RealTek 
subscribers, no doubt -- you have poisoned any effort to write a driver 
off this obviously-stolen document.

I hope others learn from your example, of what NOT to do.

Thanks for damaging my efforts to work on this through RealTek,

	Jeff

Re: Full specifications available for RealTek 8180 wireless chipset

[roberto]

Who told you the document is stolen?

I received it *officially* from RealTek's support people.

Nevetheless, since you seem to imply that people inside RealTek might "leak"
this document against the orders of their hierarchy, I am removing it, and
I will only put it back online, and reannounce it, when I have _written_
authorization from their headquarters, instead of just a mail.

Thanks for casting doubt on the honesty and reliability of RealTek's
employees, something I would never have imagined before your post

--Roberto Di Cosmo

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:

    Jeff> Roberto Di Cosmo wrote:
    >> 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.


    Jeff> Having announced this to thousands of people -- including RealTek
    Jeff> subscribers, no doubt -- you have poisoned any effort to write a
    Jeff> driver off this obviously-stolen document.

    Jeff> I hope others learn from your example, of what NOT to do.

    Jeff> Thanks for damaging my efforts to work on this through RealTek,

    Jeff> 	Jeff