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A couple of days ago I wrote that there is a driver for RTL8180 based wlan cards available [1]. With SUSE 10 it’s already build into the kernel. Yay! I learned about this through the SUSE Laptop mailing list. Read on.
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And another one quite popular wlan chip is getting an OpenSource driver: ADMtek ADM8211. Read about it here: The devices, the drivers. Get the sources here.

An OpenSource driver for Realtek RTL8180 cards is available. This is promising. You you can read about it and download the sources at: Linux driver for rtl818x wlan nic .

Yet another popular choice to get wireless networking to work is the open source solution NdisWrapper.
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There are several ways to get your RTL 8180 card to work on your SuSE laptop. The easiest way to do so is via the commercial Linuxant driver. This solution is relatively independent from the used Kernel. Another solution is the open source NdisWrapper, which will ship with SuSE 9.1 (read about it “here”:/articles/2004/10/using-ndiswrapper-with-suse-91/). If you use an older Kernel (2.4.20) you can also use the driver offered by Realtek. Installation tutorials can be “found here”:http://www.zdv.uni-mainz.de/1619.html (German) and “here”:http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/resources/howtos/linksysv4/ (English). With newer Kernels the drivers offered by Realtek will probably not work.
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