D-Link DWL120+ USB WLAN card support

[Joshua Eichorn]

Mako Gabor wrote:

>18-Dec-2003 fedora-devel-list-request at redhat.com:
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>>From: Joshua Eichorn <jeichorn at joshuaeichorn.com>:
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>>There is a great deal of maybe/maybe not when dealing with the D-Link 
>>USB WLAN card.  From my research it looks like it can have 2 or 3 
>>different chipsets in it so it might work depending on which one you have.
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>>If you have a newer one its not supported out of the box, and those look 
>>like the right driver.  However I ran into a lot of problems using the 
>>wlan-ng drivers including segfaults depending on which usb driver i was 
>>using.
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>There is a caption "DSP - Texas Instrument Technology" on the box of device.
>So it can contain "Texas Ins." chipset.
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>I installed the packages:
>kernel-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre14.i686.rpm
>kernel-wlan-ng-modules-fc1.1.2115-0.2.1-pre14.athlon.rpm
>kernel-wlan-ng-usb-0.2.1-pre14.i686.rpm.
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>The "kernel-wlan-ng-modules-fc1.1.2115-0.2.1-pre14.athlon.rpm" package didn't
>write "unresolved symbols" errors at install (I have AMD Athlon XP CPU). :)
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>When I use the device it wrote "...seems device is not present". So doesn't it
>support the TI chipset? :(
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The fun of random chipsets, you'll need to look around on google, i 
think the wlan-ng supports the prism2 chip details at: 
http://www.linux-wlan.org/
-josh

>Bye!
>Gabor
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