followed information below and same success on dell inspiron 8200 with DWL-G650 Thanks On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 23:05, Scot L. Harris wrote: > I had posted in the last few days regarding my Dell Latitude CPx laptop > and a DWL-G650 wireless adapter. > > The good news is that I have it working. > > The DWL-G650 I have is a revision A1. This revision uses a prism chip > set. Subsequent revisions I believe use a different chipset (possibly > atheros but I am not sure). > > After installing FC2 you need to download the tar ball from > http://prism54.org. The file I downloaded was > prism54-cvs-latest.tar.bz2. > > After downloading I ran the following commands: > > tar xjf prism54-cvs-latest.tar.bz2 > cd prism54-cvs-latest > make clean modules > (su to root) > make install > depmod -a > > > In my case everything worked as expected. > > You also need to get firmware which will be downloaded to the card when > it is initialized. You can get this from > http://prism54.org/~mcgrof/firmware/. I used the latest one > 1.0.4.3.arm. > > The firmware file needs to go in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware directory. > This needed to be created: > > mkdir -p /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ > > copy the 1.0.4.3.arm file to the firmware directory as isl3890. > > At this point I went through several iterations with the GUI network > wizard and network config tools. This is where it got a little > strange. I had to delete all network interfaces. I also have a xircom > card for hardwire and modem access. After deleting all interfaces I > reinserted the DWL-G650 card. At this point the system recognized the > card. In the network wizard the card was listed as an Intersil ISL3890 > [Prism GT/Prism Duette] card. I created a wireless interface and > configured the SSID and wep options. Once that was done I was surprised > to find that the interface was up and running. > > The odd thing is that in the network configuration GUI the card is not > listed as the Intersil ISL3890 as it was initially. It is listed as a > Xircom Cardbus ethernet. > > I suspect that the DWL-G650 card is not listed somewhere and as such is > not being listed as such. > > I also suspect that when I try to use the Xircom card I have that I will > have to delete all network interfaces and add it back in. > > Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get both cards configured so > that when I put a card in the correct configuration is used? > > Also is there and easy way to manage multiple wireless configurations? > It is going to be inconvenient to have to reconfigure wep settings for > different locations and uses. > > Hopefully this information will help someone else with this setup. > > -- > Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx> >
