Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:45:55 +0200 | Subject | Re: Full specifications available for RealTek 8180 wireless chipset | From | roberto@dicosmo ... |
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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
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