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SubjectRe: Full specifications available for RealTek 8180 wireless chipset
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



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