Quote Originally Posted by martinwguy

I would have said "Give the card to a windows fiend, and get something properly supported", but the installation of the drivers on a windows 98 2Ed failed to find the files it wanted from the Win CDROM (which I gave it when it asked), leaving Windows complains about missing .vxd files when it boots up. Disinstalling the driver didn't fix this.

Conclusion: RealTek RTL8180 software support for this card is utter junk, both technically and politically, so don't buy RealTek network cards.
It is sold in Australia by Netcomm, and works very well in my XP machine. I would conclude the hardware is fine. Maybe the drivers I have for XP were rewritten by Netcomm, but they do work. Unfortunately Netcomm do not list Linux as supported.