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actually i've been able to make work my linux laptop with rtl8180 wireless
pcmcia card: i had to use realtek modules distributed with public source
and some private part yet compiled.

i did not found any better driver: this one results quiet instable and i
have to pay a lot of attention when applying any change to my network
configuration.

the actual main problem is that i cannot logout kde, nor reboot or halt the
system, if i do not first of all

# ifconfig wlan0 down
# dhcpcd -k wlan0
# iwpriv wlan0 disable
sometimes i do even
# rmmod rtl8180_24x

otherwise, when i try to logout, raises kernel panic.

so i've created my personal wlanup and wlandown for managing wireless card
but still sometimes just forget to execute script in order to prevent
kernel panic.

my great problem actually is that once kernel panic is raised, once i reboot
the machine i just lose some kde settings (i cannot make any forecast on
which components will be affected): i lose settings on windows colors,
behaviour, keyboard shorcuts and many others... but most annoying stuff is
losing network settings for knode, kmail, kopete and even kwallet
passwords.

imho this could be explained: once i fall into kernel panic during logout
kde still couldn't save personal settings and so at the next login these
are just set to defaults.

but the question is there anyway to bind _logout_, _reboot_ and _halt_
commands to first execute wlandown script and then perform normal
activities? or maybe i have only to create some sort of backup of .kde dir
and restore this one, every time this happens?

PS: even if i can put a symlink to wlandown into runlevels 0/6 to be sure
that modules are not more used once i unmount filesystems is there also a
possibility to reroute
"dcop ksmserver ksmserver logout int int int"
to execute wlandown and then "logout int int int"?
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