d-link wireless

trace1918 · 10-27-2003, 12:22 PM

I have the d-link dwl 520+ wireless pci card and i don't know how to install it. i have searched in linuxquestions and some on google but i still don't know how to do it and were to find drivers.
i use slack 9.1, 2.4.22 kernel

if someone could tell me were to find the drivers and maybe how to install them properly i would be very thankful.

remember i am a newbe

hw-tph · 10-27-2003, 01:26 PM

The 520+ (note the plus sign!) uses the unreliable and poorly documented Texas Instruments ACX100 chipset. I recommend you get rid of the card and get a prism2/prism2.5 or Orinoco/Lucent based card instead since they are well supported in Linux.

I had a DWL-650+ which uses the same chipset. I had some success getting online with it using the instructions and files from acx100.sourceforge.net, but I still won't recommend it to anyone. I sold mine to a Windows user.

Håkan

smith847be · 11-01-2003, 10:49 PM

There are no commercial drivers for the ACX100, but there is an open-source project that has a driver that works fairly well. Go to <http://acx100.sourceforge.net/>. The instructions in the download are fairly self-explanatory. Before you spend the money to get a new card, try this - the driver works well.

nsX · 11-12-2003, 04:51 AM

hi

there is another discussion about this misterious card. i have the same problem

maybe you want to join us:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4&goto=newpost

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