From mid March 2004 until now (May 2004), the project has had a
"silly season" with no significant releases and events.
Here is a summary of the recent interesting developments:
With the completion of the initial release and testing cycle, the
Streetdata RTL8181 task force has been dissolved and assigned to other
projects. Mihnea, who previously led
Streetdata's RTL8181 porting effort, is now managing the RTL8181 open source
project on behalf of Streetdata.
We salute the German team of the
RTL8180 GPL device driver
project which aims to build what will incidentally be the missing piece in
a full open-source solution to the Realtek problem: the infamous wireless
driver.
Jason Hecker got his hands
on some dusty
Lexra code
bits that never made it into mainstream Linux and kindly hosted the
archive on his website. Also from Jason comes the latest
RTL8181
datasheet. 2x Thanks!
Many thanks to everybody who have contributed updates to the
RTL8181 device list.