[Lilux-help] Wireless NIC

[Alain Knaff]

begin  Friday 05 March 2004 08:15, Eric Dondelinger quote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Georges Toth wrote:
> > some other common chipsets like broadcom, aren't supported (AFAIK, but am
> > pretty sure it hasnt changed since i bought my equip.).
>
> ... and the TI ACX100 chipset, used in those 22Mbit/s cards.
> Try to stay away from those, even if by now there's a FOSS driver
> available at http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ - because it's
> x86-only and certainly because of the extremely stupid politics
> of TI in this matter.

I'm right now toying around with one of these cards (A Dlink DWL
650+). I am using the FOSS driver, but I have the following problem:

 - the drivers inserts fine, no crashes, ... 
 - but the card doesn't see my Accesspoint, even though ESSID and channel
correspond. No WEP is configured.

The access point is a KTI KW-111. The AP had previously worked with a
different card, so by itself, the AP should be ok. 

I also tried ndiswrapper with the card, but unfortunately the card's
NDIS drivers need a couple of symbols which are not yet supported by
ndiswrapper.

Anybody has any ideas?

Thanks,

Alain