HOWTO: install cheap RTL8180 wireless PCMCIA card in Linux

[Gerald Combs]

One disadvantage of this chipset is that it doesn't support monitor
mode, at least with the Linux driver:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11b.html#Realtek

In other words, Kismet, WEPCrack, and AirSnort won't work with this
card.  Granted, this is not an issue for most people.


Leo Mauler wrote:
> You're absolutely correct from an idealistic
> viewpoint.
> 
>>From the "I've only got $25 to spend on a wireless
> card and Hawking Technologies has a $24.99 802.11b
> wireless card using the RTL8180 chipset" perspective,
> ndiswrapper makes some sense.  :(
> 
> One might as well try to argue that one shouldn't use
> WINE and WineX in Linux, thereby killing off the Linux
> die-hard gamers market and causing many people who use
> proprietary Windows-only apps to simply stay with
> Windows.  Ndiswrapper at least means that the
> underlying OS is Linux, not Windows.
> 
> --- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Saturday 30 October 2004 04:47 pm, Leo Mauler
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Using ndiswrapper to make a RealTek 8180 wireless
>>>card work properly.  Rather than bother with the
>>>proprietary drivers for Linux, use this one
>>>instead.
>>
>>I thought that "ndiswrapper" used the propietary
>>drivers relesed by evil companies that don't 
>>support Open Source?  I thought the point was to 
>>take the card back to the store, tell them it's 
>>no good if it doesn't supprot Linux, and buy 
>>something else.
> 
> 
> 
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