Re: [debian-laptops] Dlink 650 p1 on debian
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.
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From: Andrew Barr <andrewbarr@columbus.rr.com>
To: ndiswrapper-general@lists.sourceforge.net
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. :-/
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Augustine
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