Bugzilla Bug 184974

Andrea Merello, developer of this driver, has stopped to mantain it actively ad
this project seems dead (the developer has disappeared without leaving a note
behind).

Someone has forked the last svn version and started a new project here:
http://rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page
Acutally they haven't made a release but you could put an eye on them and wait
for a release to replace net-wireless/rtl8180 in portage.

IMHO net-wireless/rtl8180 should be hardmasked and removed from portage since
is a dead driver that doesn't actually work with recent kernels.

Reproducible: Always

http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/sunrise/reviewed/net-wireless/rtl818x-svn/

Does this new ebuild work for you?

it doesn't work, but maybe is an ebuild bug since it cannot fetch it:

>>> Downloading 'http://father.lugmen.org.ar/~aryix/distfiles/rtl818x-svn-20070516.tar.gz'
--21:14:54-- 
http://father.lugmen.org.ar/~aryix/distfiles/rtl818x-svn-20070516.tar.gz
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/rtl818x-svn-20070516.tar.gz'
Risoluzione di father.lugmen.org.ar in corso... 200.110.134.3
Connessione a father.lugmen.org.ar|200.110.134.3:80... fallito: Connessione
rifiutata.
!!! Couldn't download 'rtl818x-svn-20070516.tar.gz'. Aborting.

Created an attachment (id=125427) [details]
rtl8180 sources modified for kernel 2.6.22

Hi there,
  i'm attaching sources modified for 2.6.22, if somebody wants to make patch
and an ebuild.

Tharrrk

the forked driver (http://rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page) is now
included in 2.6.23 kernel.
This driver is now unmantained and obsoleted by the new upcoming kernel driver.

This driver may be unmaintained, however the driver that is in the kernel (or
was the last time I checked) was *ONLY* for usb versions.... which is
unacceptable to some of us.  I am working on getting rtl8180 working with .22+ 

Created an attachment (id=132868) [details]
proposed ebuild for rtl8180-0.22_pre20070719

This is just a copy of the rtl8180-0.22_pre2005052.ebuild, with deleted patches
for 2.6.19-2.6.20(I believe they're not needed). 
Driver installs fine for me, with gentoo-sources-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 on a k6-2. To
install, use the tarball below (just a modification of Tharrrk's tar.bz2 above
with fixed path name) 
Not tested - card isn't installed, will report later.

Created an attachment (id=132871) [details]
rtl8180-0.22_pre20070719.tar.bz2

Also the rtl8180 driver should be included in the kernel 2.6.25:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git;a=commit;h=f653211197f3841f383fa9757ef8ce182c6cf627

please reopen if no in-kernel driver in recent kernels works for you.