Wireless internet "DWL-650+ "

[Stephane]

I have a DWL-650+ wireless cardbus from D-Link that was working in windows but does not work with Suse 9.1.

I went to the D-Link web site and look for driver for Linux and they don't have any.

My router is the DI-614+ is part of the D-Link AirPlus™ series which is supported by linux. If my DWL-650+ wireless card for my laptop can't work in linux, I would like to know of one that can work with my DI-614+.

Thanks!

[scientica]

I'm not very keen on wifi but, there might be a driver here: (I tried to google a little and this showed up as one of the results, the file http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz contains DWL-650 and the "linux support/AVS Tested" header for it says "Linux-wlan-ng" - I guess that means their linux-wlan-ng driver supoorts it )
http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/index.html

[Stephane]

I got my laptop to reconize my DWL-650+ as: D-Link ACX 100 22Mps wireless interface. I belive this is because the ACX 100 is the chip set in the card.

I think my problem is with the configuration of the card. I am using the Yast network card configuration.

In the Wireless setting, since I use wep encryption, I put the key with the Hexadecimal type and the Operating Mode to Managed.

I tried changing the options but still no luck.

I found a few RPMs for the ACX 100 but still no luck.

RPMs are: acx100-utils-0.2.0-1.pre6.rh73.dag.i386.rpm
acx100-utils-0.2.0-1.pre8.1.el3.dag.i586.rpm

An other thing I found is: acx100_bin_20030716.tgz which gives me the "Driver" for the ACX 100 in a folder call: Acx100Drv. In that folder I have a file called: "installAcx100" but I can get it to install anything. (Maybe I have to wrong RPMs or driver???)

I think I am very close to make it work. Still need help in figuring this wirreless card out.

[Stephane]

I know why I couldn't do the make install, the make rpm was not install.

Not much was install in the personal version. Even then, I still can't make it to work. I tried to follow the instruction found on the Suse forum but still no luck.

I got the Kernel and the Kernel-source, the make and the GCC. I have my XP driver for my card ready. And I also have the ndiswrapper ready to go.

I get this error:

/lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111-default/extra/ndiswrapper.ko
bash: /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111-default/extra/ndiswrapper.ko: Permission denied

when I follow the instruction sound on the previous mentioned Suse Forum.

I need some help real bad.

[danielph]

I am just going to start working on mine to get it working soon. Suse detects it as you say, but it does not talk to it. I read that you will need to install the firmware files manually as they are not allowed to ship these.

from http://www.novell.com/documentation/...ld_readme.html

Some wireless LAN cards (PrismGT, Centrino, Atmel, ACX100) need firmware to operate. Due to licensing issues, we cannot ship these firmware binaries. Please read /usr/share/doc/packages/wireless-tools/README.firmware for information on how to obtain and install the firmware.

If you have it working please let me know how
dwp@oddpost.com