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
