On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 21:22 -0500, Dan Elliott wrote:
>
> According to the pictures found at
> http://support.dlink.com/products/revision.asp my wireless card should
> be one of DWL-650 Rev A1-J3.
>
> Assuming I have surmised the correct Rev, dlink says my card uses the
> Prism chip set. According to Andrew's post the card should work with
> the installation as is? That has not been my experience.
>
> Is there a Linux command that could probe for the chip set of this
> device? Understanding which device drivers are installed and/or loaded
> is something I know little about (especially with Debian). Where do you
> suggest I begin looking for the source of my problem.
Well, you will certainly need the wireless-tools package installed, and
iwconfig might show you something, if your card has been detected when
you plugged it in.
What does 'cardctl info" or "cardctl status" show? What do you see from
"lspci -v" regarding the card? There are actually two sets of drivers
for the Prism cards, one lot in the kernel, and the other lot in the
"hostap" packages, so you might want to try those drivers and see if
they work better for you.
Do you get modules loaded when you plug the card in? What does "lsmod"
say before / after?
Regards,
Andrew McMillan,
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