On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 11:11, Rick Bilonick wrote: > When you say firmware for the card, do you mean you have to install > code into the card? (I've heard of updating firmware in certain types of > hardware.) I was thinking of buying a DWL G650 to increase the > connection speed. > > Rick B. Yes, that is my understanding. Apparently many (maybe all) of these wireless cards have firmware that is needed to run them. It looks like the drivers load this as they initialize the card. I found the same was true of the ipw2200bg chip set (centrino) on a new laptop. The driver is built into the kernel but I had to download and install the firmware which was picked up when the driver loaded. This is not a typical firmware upgrade where it is downloaded once. Like I said the DWL-G650 I have works well under FC2. Using it right now! :) It uses the prism54 drivers. However other versions of the DWL-G650 use a different chip set which requires different drivers. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx I'm not prejudiced, I hate everyone equally.
