Until the open source community can supply their own driver for that
card, you will have nothing but headaches with RealTek cards. 

Their driver is a bitch to setup, install, and use. It is also a
 ***closed source driver labeled as GPL****
 simply because they have a some open source wrappers for their closed
source binary. 

The linuxquestions.org thread recommends using ndiswrappers...in that
case, you might as well stick to good 'ol Orinoco Gold/Silver cards. 

The LKML has discussed realtek's 8180 drivers before:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2003-09/0817.html
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2003-09/0855.html

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 13:47, Nathan England wrote:
> I just read on linuxquestions.org realtek has a source driver for the
> 8180 chipset and it only requires slight modification depending on which
> card you get.
> 
> They also said it occasionaly requires a hard reboot when the machines
> is put into apm sleep or something. Otherwise it worked well.
> 
> nathan
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 19:10, Anthony Boynes wrote:
> > Bad news.  This appears to be version 3 of the
> > F5D6020,   which is the Realtek 8180 chipset.
> > 
> > Anthony
> > 
> > --- Liberty Young <liberty@embeddedx86.com> wrote:
> > > What's the chipset? I've noticed that many wifi card
> > > manufacturers say
> > > they have "linux drivers" but only supply
> > > precompiled drivers for Redhat
> > > Version X.xx, or if they do supply source, it is a
> > > poor wrapper for
> > > their closed source binary. One chipset that comes
> > > to mind is the
> > > RealTek 8180L
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 12:16, Anthony Boynes wrote:
> > > > Fry's Electronics has a Belkin 802.11b card
> > > (F5D6020)
> > > > in today's ad.  $40 with a $40 rebate.  Looks like
> > > it
> > > > is decently supported in linux.  I already picked
> > > one
> > > > up, and hope to try it out soon.
> > > > 
> > > > Just thought others might be interested......
> > > > 
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