OK I have a D-Link DWL-650... what now?

Nikon01 · 12-31-2005, 07:58 PM

Well upon my previous inspection of prism2 chipset cards this was listed with them but now I found out that there are two versions of the card and I don't know how to tell which chipset is which.

So how should I go about:
A) making sure I have a card that works
B) implementing the card and connecting to wireless networks

the rest I can figure out for myself

thanks ahead for all replies.(try to reply quickly because I need to find out in less than 21 days so I can return it if it doesn't work)

Darkhack · 12-31-2005, 09:18 PM

Knowing exactly what chipset shouldnt be a big issue unless you are trying to get native drivers to work. If you are using ndiswrapper all you need is to download the drivers for your card from the manufacturors website.

Nikon01 · 12-31-2005, 10:27 PM

I'm not using ndiswrapper and I shouldn't need to if it's a prism2. Problem is the other chipset that it could be doesn't work for linux so I've heard. I think the other chipset is ADMTek or something like that.

Also I have no clue how to check the chipset. I haven't used linux for a while since I found out that I couldn't make my proxim card work in linux so I'm incredibly rusty.

Command suggestions anyone?

edit: kernel ver. 2.6.8.1, tried lspci and nothing came up for pcmcia

Hangdog42 · 01-01-2006, 07:19 AM

The lspci command only shows things connected to the pci bus, which a pcmcia card isn't. Try using the cardctl command, which should show info. Have a look at the man page, but I believe cardctl ident should do the trick.

Nikon01 · 01-01-2006, 05:23 PM

Thank you hangdog. Now I know it's a Prism3 card(ARGH!). Well I'm going to return this card then and pick up a Cisco Aironet off ebay. Thanks for the help guys