Wireless, D-LINK
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Tue Mar 16 00:49:14 UTC 2004
Jeff wrote:
> --- Bill Spears <bspears at easystreet.com> wrote:
>
>>D-Link has a base station and cardbus card
>>combination out for a very
>>attractive price. They go under the name AirPlus
>>XtremeG(perhaps D-Link
>>has been acquired by a record company). Their model
>>id's are DI-624 and
>>DWL-650 respectively. The packaging claims that the
>>DI-624 works under
>>Linux, but the card does not. Since this appears to
>>be rather bleeding
>>edge, I was wondering if anyone is using these or
>>can at least advise.
>>Thank you.
>>--
>>Bill Spears <bspears at easystreet.com>
>
>
> Hey Bill,
> I haven't used the card (laptop has a built in
> broadcom and I use it with http://ndiswrapper.sf.net
> ), but look here:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=621465#post621465
> and here
> http://www.linux-wlan.com/
I can assure you that the D-Link DWL-650+ card (the one with the curved
antenna) will NOT work with Linux as it uses a TI chipset and they won't
release the API to open source. It works quite well with ndiswrapper,
however.
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