D-link DWL-650+

[Guest llorgge]

I just got a dlink dwl 650+ because mandrake said it should be compatablew and my computer does indeed see it, but I just can't seem to get it going.

 

cardctl ident shows identifies it and i even put that into /etc/pcmcia/config with the manid and had it bind wvlan_cs, but alas no go. I read that that is outdated so I tried orinoco_cs but that didn't work either. If I go into my hardware settings in mcc it shows it, but i can't configure it. In the network configuration i tired telling it to look at both wvlan and orinoco, but it still tells me the module is unknown.

 

Any ideas?

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Follow this thread:

http://mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=8499

 

(You seem to be a step ahead of this person, because you can info from cardctl ident and this person can't)

[frosterrj]

Thanks to Steve for all the help in the thread he pasted into his reply. I'm now beginning to think I should have stayed with the 650+!

 

Anyway, when I tried the 650+, I think I got card info using the Prism2 module. Try that one. actually I'm not sure I got the card to identify before or after I loaded the module.....

 

here's my output when I had that card, so it should work for you too.

 

D-Link DWL-650+

H/W Ver.:B3 F/W Ver.:1.9

 

[root@localhost robert]# /sbin/cardctl ident

Socket 0:

no product info available

Socket 1:

product info: "Wireless Network CardBus PC Card", "Global", "", ""

manfid: 0x0097, 0x8402

function: 6 (network)

[Guest llorgge]

yeah, i can get that when i cardctl it and i put that into /etc/pcmcia/config and my MCC picks it up in the hardware section, but i guess i'm not binding the correct module. I'm going to try the prism one as well as the 8211 one (assuming i can get it to compile).

 

here's my output when I had that card, so it should work for you too.

 

does that mean it actually can work with Mandrake? The last one I tried, I found out that it was impossible to work with Mandy after numerous hours of tinkering.

 

thanks for your help.