Dlink DWL-650 RevP support?

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Mon Apr 19 09:44:29 PDT 2004


On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:28:50PM -0400, Peter Serwe wrote:
> Pardon me if this is well covered ground, but I've tried
> some targeted archive searching, and not found it.
> 
> I have a DLink DWL-650 card, I believe it's a PRISM3
> chipset card.  It's the currently available bone-stock, plain
> 16-bit 11Mbps card running @ 5V.  My primary purpose
> for this card was to use it for wireless security work.
> 
> I've enabled wi support in my 4.9-STABLE kernel, just
> cvsup'd and done a make buildworld, buildkernel,
> installkernel, installworld in single user after rebuilding
> the kernel last night.
> 
> I run into the following problem when I insert the card.
> 
> "pccard[54]:  No card in database for "D-Link"("DWL-650 Wireless PC Card
> RevP")
> 
> Is there anything I can do, short of writing a driver, which
> is beyond my capability, to get this card working?  If not,
> can anyone suggest a cheap alternative for a card that
> will do 11,22, or 54Mbps?
> 
No, it's not PRISM.  You'd need the NDISulator and 5.2-CURRENT to
run it, using native Windows drivers (I've only recently verified
it works).


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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