Guest bolanski Posted December 2, 2002 Report Share Posted December 2, 2002 What Wireless Pcmcia card does work easy or not to damm hard in Mandrake 9.0? Im thiniking of buying a Dlink 650+ 22mbit Im a GUI person but i can get around in a console too if necesary. /andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bizofun Posted December 2, 2002 Report Share Posted December 2, 2002 I use a Lucent/Orinoco gold card... it works perfectly. If I remember correctly the 650 is based on the same chipset... if so then there won't be a problem. I am using the pcmcia-cs package as well as the wireless tools package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bolanski Posted December 3, 2002 Report Share Posted December 3, 2002 The Dlink 650 has the PrismII chip dosent it? I saw something about the 650 and newer revisions not being the same and not working on that drivers. But Im still more interested in the 650+ 22mbit and that one dosent have the prismII chip. Ill check out the card you use and have a look if its posible to buy it in Sweden. /andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilbert Posted August 1, 2004 Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 Dlink DWL-650+ uses ACX100 (http://acx100.sourceforge.net/) chip and is very cheap as I know in Taiwan. The chip is Texan Instruments and poorly supported in open souce community. It is not gonna work well in Linux at all. You can download the driver and try to compile it first. I had a hard time attempting to compile the driver in Mandrake 9.2. I had to remove the 98th line in the Makefile.inc in the source tar ball to disable the kernel path config file (/usr/src/linux/.config) and make an empty file /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h . However DWL-G650 (rev B & C) is based on Madwifi driver (see http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=357 and http://support.dlink.com/products/revision...tid=DWL%2DG650). Good news is that if you are running Mandrake 10, you can install the madwifi driver from the installation CD 3. Run rpmdrake --root and search madwifi to find the driver and utilities. If you are sure that the Dlink DWL-G650 is rev B & C( see http://support.dlink.com/products/revision...ctid=DWL%2DG650 to tell ), you may buy it and try it in your Mandrake 10! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilbert Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 I bought a CNet CNWLC 811 PCMCIA card and plug into the Mandrake 10. After pcmcia_cs was installed, the card was detected in boot but failed to assign IP address. After the installation of package atmel-firmware and reboot, iwlist eth1 scan worked, ifconfig eth1 192.168.2.3 worked, everything worked well like magic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest adamjake Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 hilbert: i have d-link dwl g650 rev b4 installed on mandrake 10. i followed your instructions and am stuck. i run the rpmdrake --root, search madwifi and got no results. am a newbie here and would very much welcome your advice. thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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