Wireless, D-LINK

[Dexter Ang]

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 00:52, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Dexter Ang wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 08:49, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > 
> >>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.
> > 
> > 
> > I do not know how to describe my card (it doesn't seem to have a curved
> > antenna), but I am using the PCMCIA D-Link DWL-650+ on Fedora everyday.
> 
> On the 650+ I was referring to (there are apparently several models),
> the edge of the plastic antenna sticking out of the top of the card is
> slightly curved, making the card look sort of like Napoleon.

yup the crap d-link does, naming different cards with the same model
number.

> 
> > It uses the TI chipset, which is "supported" by the acx100 project
> > (acx100.sourceforge.net). If you want, you can get the kernel modules at
> > dag.wieers.com (acx100-utils, and kernel-acx100-modules, or something
> > like that). So it does work. It works well. Of course, the driver is
> > only at 0.2.0pre7, which means it's for the brave at heart. I bought it
> > since I couldn't find any Linksys ver3 pcmcia cards. Plus I did confirm
> > with others on this list that it does work. The only thing you need is
> > the binary files (RADIO.bin or something), from the dlink windows
> > drivers.
> 
> If the acx100 driver requires the Windows driver files (the .bin and 
> .inf files) as ndiswrapper does, there still is no "native" driver for
> the card (you've got a wrapper program that issues Windows-ish calls to
> the Windows drivers and translates the return values back to kernel
> data).  Hey, it works and I'm not complaining.

ok agreed. i guess my view point was a little skewed on the definition
of "native" drivers. but i also agree, at least it works. i still stand
corrected.

dex