On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 06:21:30AM -0600, Tom wrote: > Hello all, > > Anyone have luck with the dlink dwl 650 rev p?
Finally someone tackling the exact same ploblem! I thought I was the only one with that card... > I tried wlan and I am considering orinoco. After googling for 12 hours, I > found a lot of information posts related to problems and few success > stories. I have tried, for a very long time, to get this to work with linux-wlan-ng and ndiswrapper, I didn't get it to work yet. The furthest I got was with linux-wlan-ng and an open router, and this wasn't very reliable. Unfortunately, I need this card to work with an encrypted link. My latest attempt was with ndiswrapper, and was told that it won't work. At the bottom is the reply I got when I asked for help on the ndiswrapper list. I have not been able to get the firmware, the location probably has a problem with privoxy (that I run) or the way my connection is set up. I'll have to try the firmware that comes with linux-wlan-ng (there are 3 of them and I haven't looked at that in detail yet). It would help to know which firmware actually works. The other thing is that I want to do this with a 2.4 kernel. I'd rather not go through the massive upgrades to Debian stable that using a 2.6 kernel entails. Ok, now that someone else is interested in getting this to work, we can hopefully pull it off. Let's try this, compare notes, details, etc... possibly off-list, and see if we can get this card to work with a 2.4 kernel and an encrypted link. =============== included message ============= From: Andrew Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] DWL-650 P1 problems Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:21:13 -0500 On Sunday 28 November 2004 09:57 pm, A. F. Cano wrote: > Hi, > > As some might know, there are various flavors of DWL-650 wireless cards. > The P1 variation has a prism chipset, but the preferred solution, the > native linux driver (linux-wlan.org) doesn't work. HostAP will work. Use the latest 0.2.x version. See: http://home.columbus.rr.com/andrewbarr/linux/dwl520e1.html for instructions on this card's PCI cousin, the DWL-520 rev. E. Setup is very similar. > So I downloaded the > windows driver from dlink.com. There are 3 variations of it, but none > work. The first thing I noticed and might have solved by commenting > all references to "USB" in the inf file is that these cards come in > two varieties: a PC card and a USB attachment. This particular revision of the DWL-650 doesn't have the full firmware on-board; it is loaded by the operating system. I think that the USB driver has the Prism firmware in it, this is why it is in the Windows driver package. Anyway, this card will not work with ndiswrapper. Ndiswrapper only supports PC cards that use a 32-bit (CardBus) interface. This card is a 16-bit PCMCIA card. Use HostAP. It is a well-written driver and works very well. In fact, this message was sent over a DWL-650 rev. P driven by HostAP ;-). Andrew P.S. BTW, I know that D-Link's (boneheaded) support site says to use linux-wlan-ng with this card. While this project has support for Prism3 SSF cards, HostAP's is better by far, and HostAP supports the wireless extensions API. There's only one thing worse than a vendor not supporting Linux: that's supporting it and getting it wrong. :-/ ================= end of included message ============= Augustine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
