Belkin wireless PCI card problem

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Good afternoon,
due to info provided in 11.1 installation halts - Page 2 - openSUSE Forums , I started a new thread for my HW problem. I have Belkin F5D7000qs PCI networking card (Wireless G). Problem is it doesn’t work correctly and even causes system halt when trying to start YaST Network Settings.

Info I could find:
lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800] (rev a1)
02:01.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems LT WinModem (rev 02)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Belkin Device 700f (rev 20)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 02)

lsmod | grep rtl

rtl8180                27528  0 
mac80211              199840  1 rtl8180
eeprom_93cx6            2204  1 rtl8180
cfg80211               23356  2 rtl8180,mac80211
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hwinfo:

74: None 00.0: 1070a WLAN
  [Created at net.124]
  Unique ID: AYEt.QXn1l67RSa1
  Parent ID: y9sn.s_MB2x+swO4
  SysFS ID: /class/net/wlan0
  SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:05.0
  Hardware Class: network interface
  Model: "WLAN network interface"
  Driver: "rtl8180"
  Driver Modules: "rtl8180"
  Device File: wlan0
  HW Address: 00:1c:df:2c:6e:cb
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #28 (WLAN controller)
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There is a bug with rtl8185. I suspect that is what you have here. I got it with rtl8185l and reported it as a bug also. Nothing has happened in the past few days. Now that holidays are over, maybe someone will look into it.

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Is there some progress in this case? Patch, anything…

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As mentioned in another reply:—
I have been trying to reinstall Linux in general, using the latest KDE/Kernal etc. using Kubuntu, Fedora and SuSE 11.1
ALL of them will not connect to the internet using the RTL8185. So it is not worth trying another distro. Stick to SuSE, as this seems to give the better distro. (s/w etc.)
I still cannot get it going, but I have found a driver for it from REALTEK.
Driver = rtl8185_linux_26[1].1027.0823.2007.tar.gz
I shall put it onto a RWCD as the floppy drive isn’t working either, and try it.

I also get the RTL8180 report.>:(