From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Radu Potop Subject: rtl8180 driver in master/ad-hoc mode Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:53:00 +0200 Message-ID: <4B756B4C.2090204@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.159]:28051 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754666Ab0BLOxF (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:53:05 -0500 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so266768fgg.1 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:53:03 -0800 (PST) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, I noticed that the rtl8180 (Realtek wireless PCI adapter) driver for Linux doesn't support master or ad-hoc mode. However the rtl-wifi driver from http://rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net does support these modes. After a bit of investigation, I found out that the driver from the kernel is not maintained by its original author anymore (no changes since 2007), while rtl-wifi development is active. My question is if rtl-wifi will make it into the kernel? rtl-wifi is actually a fork of the old driver, but with a lot of added functionality. I'm sure that a lot of folks would like to use their hardware to its full potential. Thank you, Radu Potop