On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 06:05:58PM +0300, Shay Elkin wrote: > There was a bit of wi-fi discussion on this list recently, and it made me want > to go wireless myself. > > I searched the various hardware vendors online, but all I seem to find are > D-Link DWL-650+ cards, which seem to be the only reasonably-priced 802.11b > cards imported to Israel. > > But those cards are based on TI chipset, for which exists a problematic (and > unsupported) binary driver, and a non-mature, reversed-enginereed open source > driver.
The D-Link DWL-650+ (CardBus and PCI versions) works on Linux, with the reversed-enginereed open source driver. It had in fact, matured greatly in the last month. http://acx100.sourceforge.net It started working only two weeks ago, when I had a few E-Mail exchanges with the lead developer of the OSS driver, Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. We have managed to find and debug an initialization problem in the driver (which also plagued the binary version) with my CardBus card. After doing a guided change suggested by Andreas, I finally got it to work. Although it seems to work OK, I am really not satisfied with my WiFi setup. Using a D-Link DWL-900AP+ access point, it seems that the wireless connection gets completely disconnected from 20 meters away, and at a 1 meter range - the link doesn't get any faster than 6Mbit/sec. What's the point of WiFi if I can't get upstairs to my room without losing the link? -- Dan Aloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
